#14 Talking Barbie With Author Laura Bogart!

In today’s episode, I am happy to have Laura Bogart, author of Don’t You Know I Love You and essays surrounding pop culture, feminism, and more. Recently. Laura penned a must-read feature for Dame Magazine about her relationship with Barbie and talks with me about her thoughts on the Greta Gerwig/Margot Robie billion dollar movie.

You will hear:

• Laura’s joy at the experience of attending the movie
• Reasons for some of the backlash surrounding the movie
• Resonating with the idea that once something is out of the box, it can’t be shoved back in, and her own personal awakening
• How gender roles are seen in both Barbie’s world and in the real world and how it shows that people can really be what they want to be, not just the performative norm
• Weird Barbie’s role and how even Barbieland wasn’t as perfect as it “should” be
• Queer coding throughout the entertainment industry providing layers and depth that heteronormative films don’t have
• And more! 

Guest Info: 

Laura Bogart is the author of "Don’t You Know I Love You" (Dzanc Books). She is also a non-fiction writer who focuses on personal essays, pop culture, film and TV, feminism, body image and sizeism, and politics (among other topics). Laura is a featured contributor to The Week and DAME magazine; her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, SPIN, The AV Club, Vulture, and Indiewire (among other publications).

Links:  

Laura's Dame article: https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/07/28/that-time-barbie-and-i-had-an-epiphany/

Find Laura Online: @LDBogart 

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