“Every time I turned on the news, there was something bad happening to Black people,” one collector of over 600 Black Barbies says. “I wanted to surround myself with beautiful Black things.”
In the summer of 2021, content creator and specialty baker Joshua Gash moved out of West Hollywood and returned to his hometown in North Carolina. He was ready for a change, but he had one major logistical hurdle to overcome: how to transport a cherished collection of more than 600 Black Barbie dolls across the country. “I had no idea how I would do it,” Gash says. He considered stuffing the
, Brione explained the impetus behind her collection. “Dolls that looked like this were not around,” she says in the clip, referring to her 1990s childhood. She held up two contemporary Black Barbies. “The fact that Barbie Holiday from 2021 has twists? The fact that we have the same hairstyle right now?” Brione says, showing off her own braids. “It’s a testament to how important representation is. But it’s also kind of sad that you had to be 20 until you saw your first doll with an Afro.
Black and Barbie: The two concepts have their own long-tailed and thorny sociocultural histories, ideas, and representations of race and gender, respectively. As a result, Black Barbies sit at a loaded point of intersectionality. “Kitty and Stacey both are major players in Black Barbie’s story,” says Lagueria Davis, who directed a documentary—inspired by her aunt’s own vast collection and work at Mattel—unpacking the history and culture of the dolls. “Those two women showcase the sheer power of diversity and inclusion.”
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