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This episode is a director's cut version of So we’re all obsessed with dolls right now, including extra discussions on dolls in horror films, "living dolls," the power of Bratz, and an interview with Dr. Jillian Hernandez, professor and author of Aesthetics of Excess: The Art of Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. You can find Jillian on Instagram @pastelitocookie! Subscribe to the Patreon! SOURCES Ancient and Creepy Doll Head Discovered in Prehistoric Child Grave Joins World's Oldest Known Toy Collection Paddle Doll | Middle Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Condon, Eileen M. "Spirit dolls (munequitas) in New York Puerto Rican homes: engaging with saints and ancestors." Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore 39, no. 1-2 (2013): 14+. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed May 16, 2023). Voodoo for dummies: A quick guide to how magical possession works in the 'Chucky' universe Myths About Voodoo  THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW OF ANNABELLE: CREATION The History of Creepy Dolls The Other Sara Lee: A Doll Story - The Strong National Museum of Play Are All These Diverse Dolls Actually Making a Difference for Kids' Self Esteem? | Allure Antique Q&A: French papier-mâché doll. The Lovely & Disturbing: The History Of Wax Dolls – Inherited Values Oh, You Beautiful Doll : Wax Dolls Were Once as Popular as Their Cabbage Patch Descendants Are Today. This Year, One Antique Sold for $1,842 Porcelain Doll History and Origin Antique Porcelain Dolls: How to Determine Their Value. CHILDHOOD PLAYTHINGS Antique Infants: A Brief History of Baby Dolls. Change in sociocultural ideal male physique: An examination of past and present action figures - ScienceDirect The Secret of Barbie's Rivals - TIME The New Yorker (Dec 4, 2006) A Brief Cultural History of Bratz American Girl dolls: Where the brand has both championed and failed America's girls  Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England by Gesa Stedman Walk, Walk, Fashion Baby: 18th Century Fashion Dolls - The Costume Society Guide to the Paper Dolls Collection mid 19th century The Paper Dolls of Anne Sanders Wilson | European Fashion Heritage Association The Secret History of the Dolls That Inspired Dior's Couture Collection Cissette: The Rise & Fall of a Fashion Icon | DOLLS magazine 20th Century Commercialization of Childhood COMPANY NEWS: Mattel Says It Erred; Teen Talk Barbie Turns Silent on Math - The New York Times Billboard (Aug 16, 1997) Mattel Sues Aqua Over “Barbie Girl” – Rolling Stone Margiela's "A Doll's Wardrobe" | helicon Moschino Brings Paper Dolls to Life for Spring 2017 Cover up your dark circles in style with a giant doll's head The 5 Most Influential Barbie Designers. Moschino Creates Barbie Doll and Capsule Collection – WWD Balmain Collaborates With Barbie on Fashion Collection – WWD This Is What a Mowalola Bratz Doll Looks Like Ball-Jointed Doll Wiki Volks USA So, What is a BJD Anyway? | BJDs for Dummies Super Dollfie - Wikipedia ドール面 橋本ルル の活動終了理由について Reason for ending the Hashimoto Lulu Project (doll mask) Subcultures and Social Trends: Living Dolls – The Quest for Plastic and Latex Perfection — Steemit Meet Valeria Lukyanova, The 'Human Barbie' Who Claims She's Only Had One Plastic Surgery Blondie Bennett has hypnotherapy to make her like 'brainless sex doll' | Daily Mail Online A conversation with @klit.klittredge, American Girl doll meme maker and shitposter - Digital Culture What Do American Girl Dolls Say About Us? - The Strong National Museum of Play Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter Edited by Sophie Carter Music by Olivia Martinez Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

In this episode, Mina reviews some of late April/early May's trending topics. Keep up with High Brow on Instagram! Subscribe to the Patreon! and keep up with Mina on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok! Here was her reading list: The rise of dating vigilantism Meet the People Working 3 Jobs to Afford Erewhon FINDING EREWHON Celebrity Chef Reveals What She Gets A-List Clients in $1500 Erewhon Haul 'Cosplaying as rich people': Customers spend $80 in EBT at Erewhon 2023 Writers Guild of America Strike: What You Need to Know - The New York Times In past strikes, networks turned to reality TV. Now it's more complicated. Neil Gaiman on Tumblr George R.R. Martin Weighs In On The Writer's Strike (& Why He Hates Mini-Rooms) Edited by Sophie Carter Music by Olivia Martinez Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

In this director's cut episode, Mina taps into celeb "courtcore" aka the way that celebrities dress when appearing in the judicial court. In this special episode, she also dives further into history, starting with Joan of Arc and ending with contemporary films and the way characters are costumed for trial (e.g. Legally Blonde). Keep up with High Brow on Instagram! Subscribe to the Patreon! and keep up with Mina on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok! Clothing | Joan of Arc | Jeanne-darc.info Primary Sources and Context Concerning Joan of Arc's Male Clothing Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser The Misgendering of Joan of Arc Mary, Queen of Scots, Became an Iconic Figure for Many Catholics Over the Centuries, Scholar Says Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of the Celebrity Scandal | The New Yorker “Fatty’s Wife’s Smiles Lighten Grim Tragedy,” The Washington Times (1921) “Women Throng First Hearing of Arbuckle Case,” The New York Tribune (1921) What America will remember from Gwyneth Paltrow's ski crash trial - The Washington Post Courtroom Style: Gwyneth Paltrow, Winona Ryder, Lindsay Lohan and more’s iconic outfits while on trial The most iconic celebrity courtroom outfits The Verdict on Winona's Clothes - The Washington Post Why Did She Do It? - TIME Naomi Campbell Shows the World How to Dress for Court Lindsay Lohan wears fancy pants to court. Who decides her attire? | EW.com In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest - The New York Times Experts Decode Amber Heard's Suited Courtroom Looks Amber Heard accused of COPYING Johnny Depp's courtroom outfits: see similarities between ensembles | Daily Mail Online free" Winona From Faux Pas to Fashion Statement - Los Angeles Times https://www.facebook.com/wmagazine/photos/a.10166595114335004/10166627967380004/?type=3 Lindsay Lohan's 'F-You' a Joke, Says Lawyer...Then Quits | LAist Did Lindsay Lohan Write 'F*** U' on Her Fingernail for Her Probation Hearing? Cardi B Is Guilty... of the Best-Ever Celebrity Court Fashion Megan Thee Stallion sent a powerful message with the purple suit she wore to testify against Tory Lanez -- who's found guilty of shooting her, more courtroom fashion over the years | Gallery | Wonderwall.com How Should Gwyneth Paltrow Dress for Court? Our celebrity trial obsession sets a dangerous precedent American Trial Films and the Popular Culture of Law Case Study 4: Chicago (2002) – The Femme Fatale and the Distortion of Female Criminality Legally Blonde Fashion: Costume Designer Sophie de Rakoff on Elle's 'Signature Color' | EW.com Legally Blonde, Legally Fashionable: The Evolution of Elle Woods - The Art of Costume My Favourite Outfits In Legally Blonde – The Vault Publication Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter Edited by Sophie Carter Music by Olivia Martinez Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Mi-Anne Chan, Senior director at Conde Nast, joins the host to discuss the digital fashion magazine industry. They explore the decline of print fashion magazines, the impact of social media, and the challenge of maintaining authenticity. They also delve into the hidden advertising tactics in women's publications and the rise of independent self-published zines. An interesting chapter highlights the evolution of fashion magazines from Vogue to zines, while another explores Teen Vogue's shift towards political coverage. The podcast provides valuable insights into the world of fashion magazines in the digital age.

Ryan Gosling, actor agreed to play Ken in the 'Barbie' movie. Interesting topics include the Barbie trailer, terrible lighting in modern movies/tv shows, sharing pet custody, Instagram divorce announcements, therapyspeak harming relationships, flavored watertok, and the luxury water market.

The director's cut version of Mina's "let's discuss MLMs, Pyramid Schemes, and Grindset Culture video she published onto Youtube on Monday. In this expanded edition, she shares listener stories, debunks bogus claims by MLMs like Young Living, and talks with journalist Sophie Dickinson who wrote the ever informative "The 'Get Rich Quick' MLM Schemes Targeting Gen Z During Lockdown" article for Vice! Keep up with High Brow on Instagram! Subscribe to the Patreon! and keep up with Mina on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok! Sources Multilevel Marketing: A Historical Perspective by William W. Keep and Peter Vander Nat (2013) Avon Products 1964-2014: The Slippery Slope of Direct Selling by William W. Keep (2015) Theorizing #Girlboss Culture: Mediated Neoliberal Feminisms from Influencers to Multi-Level Marketing Schemes by Frankie Mastrangelo (2021) The Case (for and) against Multi-level Marketing By Jon M. Taylor, MBA, Ph.D., Consumer Awareness Institute Islamic Marketing: Understanding the Socio-Economic, Cultural, and Politico-Legal Environment (Management for Professionals) by Cedomir Nestorovic  The Rise and Fall of Albania's Pyramid Schemes by Christopher Jarvis Multi-Level Marketing Businesses and Pyramid Schemes The Story of Brownie Wise, the Ingenious Marketer Behind the Tupperware Party Tupperware Parties: Suburban Women’s Plastic Path to Empowerment  Hey, Hun! In women’s joblessness, multi-level marketers saw opportunity. The Story Behind the Mary Kay Pink Cadillac  ‘It’s very culty’: the bizarre billion-dollar downfall of fashion company LuLaRoe Do You Trust This Momfluencer? Good, Because She Has Something To Sell You Inside the influencer MLM that peddles more than just an Insta-perfect life The 'Get Rich Quick' MLM Schemes Targeting Gen Z During Lockdown  Where Working Women Are Most Common 10 reasons Mormons dominate multi-level marketing companies Follow the profit: How Mormon culture made Utah a hotbed for multi-level marketers Amazon Docuseries LuLaRich Breaks Down the Chaotic Story of Deception Behind Multilevel Marketing Company LuLaRoe  These Women Say An Essential Oil MLM Has Been Taken Over By Satan. Yes, Really. How Essential Oils Became the Cure for Our Age of Anxiety FTC Takes Action Against doTERRA Distributors for False COVID-19 Health Claims What You Should Know about Youngevity Multilevel Marketing Companies Are Cashing In on the Crisis Latinos crucial to Herbalife’s financial health  Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter Edited by Sophie Carter Music by Olivia Martinez Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Mina welcomes friend of the pod, Rian Phin, to chat about cultivating your own identity/aesthetic, being part of a subculture, the perilous state of fashion archiving, our unhealthy(???) usage of social media, the old money mystique, and more! Rian Phin is a fashion writer, theorist, and content creator. You can find her on TikTok, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram. This is the TikTok video we discuss briefly. Keep up with High Brow on Instagram! Subscribe to the Patreon! and keep up with Mina on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok! Edited by Sophie Carter Music by Olivia Martinez Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

In this episode, Mina explores some of the discussions that came up in February and March: aestheticizing failure as a woman, HBO's The Idol, sex scenes in tv shows, and how censorship and AI are affecting society's relationship to sex and companionship. Keep up with High Brow on Instagram! Subscribe to the Patreon! and keep up with Mina on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok! Here was her reading list: All hail the girlfailure by Roison Lanigan Why are so many people rewatching Girls? by Callie Holtermann What Rewatching Old Shows Teaches Us about Ourselves by Allie Volpe 'The Idol': How HBO's Next 'Euphoria' Became Twisted 'Torture Porn' by Cheyenne Roundtree Are Sex-Negative ‘Puriteens’ Actually Taking Over the Internet? By EJ Dickinson Penn Badgley Goes Deeper on Swearing Off Racy ‘You’ Sex Scenes: ‘That Aspect of Hollywood Has Been Very Disturbing’ by Kate Arthur Hundreds of sexual deepfake ads using Emma Watson’s face ran on Facebook and Instagram in the last two days by Kat Tenbarge When It Comes to OnlyFans, Humans Can Outcompete AI by Lux Alptraum Replika's Companion Chat Bot Reportedly Loses the Sex and Leaves Fans Despondent by Nikki Main Italy bans U.S.-based AI chatbot Replika from using personal data by Elvira Pollina and Martin Coulter Edited by Sophie Carter Music by Olivia Martinez Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Dr. Katharina Vester, culture historian and professor at American University, joins the podcast to discuss the dark history of dieting, including the harmful effects of calorie counting and the use of amphetamines in diet pills. The podcast also explores the influence of media on dieting and the social stigma faced by fat individuals. Additionally, the historical shift in the gender dynamics of cooking is explored, highlighting resistance from queer cookbook authors challenging heteronormativity.