⭐️🌈Heal Your Inner Child 🧸🎈

Don't let them tell you your activism isn't changing anything.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Feminism that does not include trans people is not a form of feminism that will be able to enact positive change. It will only continue to reinforce the systems that hold us down.

If your friends somehow choose to ignore everything about the boycott to help Palestine then honestly maybe they shouldn't be your friend because it's pretty obvious they don't care if they know so much about Palestine but can't seem to boycott for the life of em

Just saying!

A Litany for Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995)

Main exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Reconstruction of the bima from the synagogue in Hvizdetsʹ (Gwoździec), Ukraine.

“Director of Al-Shifa Hospital:”

“Patients will not die due to abandonment. If Israel kills patients, we will die with them”

SOURCE

I'm actually quite shocked to see pillow pets still in business but it makes me so happy because it makes me feel so nostalgic, pillow pets was a huge part of my childhood I had the ladybug one 🩷

"Two young Palestinians, Dana El Sakka and her husband Tawfik El Fara. Dana was a lawyer. Tawfik was a dentist. They got married earlier this year and were waiting for the birth of their first child. Their house was bombed. Tawfik, Dana, and her fetus all died. She was happily waiting for her firstborn.

And that’s only one of thousands' stories. They're not just numbers"

The Complex Jewstory Of Barbie

Barbie, the doll we all know and love. The icon that changed the way girls viewed themselves, an icon to be for many generations including having a HUGE box office! Ain't that something? She was the gift young girls would absolutely BEG their parents to get for them whether it be the holidays or birthdays.

But did you know the doll has very interesting origins? The history of Barbie is one to behold, but is she Jewish? That's the burning question everyone's been asking and the answer is, it's complicated.

Hello tigers and doves on my blog! My name is Aphrodite and today, I will be discussing the complex jewstory of Barbie and answering if Barbie is TRULY the Jewish icon we all need.

But first, let's start alllll the way to the beginning:

Ruth Handler was first born as Ruth Moskowicz on November 4th, 1916.

Ruth was born to a Polish Jewish immigrants in Colorado.

At a young age, age 16 to be exact, Ruth met her future husband, Elliot Handler. They had met at a Jewish youth dance.

Elliot was a artist, he went to art school to pursue his passion. At 22 years old, the pair were married.

Elliot as well as being the creator of Mattel, created Hot Wheels! But I'll get into that another time.

Years passed, the influence from Barbie, came from when Ruth was watching her daughter, Barbara Handler, playing with paper dolls. Noticing how her daughter found most interest in the adult paper dolls instead of the young or baby paper dolls.

Barbara, however, needed inspiration, in 1956, her and her family went on a family trip to Switzerland. A German, adult toy, named Bild Lilli.

There she had it. The perfect inspiration!

3 years later, the year was 1959—

The iconic hips and body shape was presented with her platinum blonde hair.

Barbie was born!

Barbie quickly became an icon for all the young girls across the world, for her body shape and signature face became most iconic.

Now the question still burns :

Is Barbie Jewish ?

The verdict is, it depends! Barbie can be anything or anybody, including Jewish! While Barbie is based on a Jewish woman, it's never explicitly confirmed that she is Jewish (she also has films whereas she's celebrating Christmas)

If you want your Barbie to be Jewish, then she's Jewish!

Barbie can be anyone.

Barbie has the most interesting history I've seen and she'll forever, I say, be iconic.

Thank you so much for reading! I hope you liked this little rant, I've been waiting to make this for so long!