NVN Monday: LET HER WEAR GREEN
by Tricia Knoll
Did the ‘Barbie’ Movie Cause a Pink Paint Shortage? The film recreates the famous doll’s brightly colored world—with the help of one specific shade of pink. —Smithsonian, June 8, 2023
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Witness a shortage of pink paint from the set design of a Barbie movie. Let her wear green for chlorophyll, eco-warrior for a hurting planet short on good sense as cancer drugs are hard to come by. This rainbow month colors fly on flagpoles and banners. I’m so sick of pink. The only Barbie I have sits in a wheelchair; she is a woman of color beautiful color.
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Barbie Fashionistas Doll #166 With Wheelchair & Crimped Brunette Hair
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Tricia Knoll is a Vermont poet well beyond Barbie years. Her work appears widely in journals, anthologies, and seven collections—the most recent being One Bent Twig (FutureCycle Press, 2023) which brings together poems about about trees she has planted, loved, or worries about due to climate change.