Dressing My Dolls for Pride & Creating an American Girl Pride Parade (+ My Pride Parade Experiences)
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- This video is three in one - Let's chat as I dress the dolls for Pride, then I'll walk you through creating an entire doll-sized Pride Parade for them (it's pretty epic), and I'll show you the results of that photo shoot as I tell some stories of my own Pride Parade/ Pride Festival experiences.
If you're only interested in some of the video...
*Dressing My Dolls begins at 2:06
*Planning for/Creating the Parade begins at 14:00
*Parade Pics and story time (some of my Pride experiences from the past twenty years) begins at 28:33
I'm really, really proud (pun intended) of this photo shoot and I think it's full of joy, which is the perfect counter to the bigotry that becomes especially visible in the AG community every year in June. If you enjoy this video, do me a favor and share it! Share it far and wide and hope that it brings some joy to someone else.
Thank you so much!
-Kristie (agtakesover@gmail.com and @ag_takesover on IG) 
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It’s really hard to pick a favourite element of your AG parade, but I think it’s the flag twirlers. The car and float is the obvious answer, and the way you made the dolls line the street is amazing, but something about the flag twirlers came together in such a surprise. The TM dresses were perfect, the flags were brilliant.
Happy Pride! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Thank you! Who knew having so many of that dang dress would come in handy? I think it's the wire in the top and being able to make them "flutter" - that little detail makes it for me. Happy Pride, Blaine!
Your Pride parade is AMAZING! I love all the dolls in their Pride outfits and how you put the whole thing together with cars and flags and everything! What a very special event. Thank you for documenting it so we could see :). And thank you for your generosity of spirit in sharing some of your own personal Pride stories.
You're welcome - knowing it is bringing others joy makes me very very happy!
Thank you for putting this together and sharing your beautiful dolls and your beautiful life.
You are so welcome! It is a blessing that the things that give me joy also give some others joy :)
WOOW Kristie! As always, you’ve done a wonderful job here. I love how you dressed each doll. Those small scale styled overalls are SO cute, the way you split Julie’s outfit into two was creative and done well.. I could go on and on. I think your stitching on Ash’s shirt looks just fine. It has a homemade charm that I just love. Seeing you and the fam at Pride events made my heart warm and fuzzy, and the icing on the cake that is this video was seeing your creativity shine through in your doll Pride event. It looked like so much work and it was worth it for the results. Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Thank you so much. I think the colorguard flags ended up being one of my favorite details, but honestly I'm just thrilled with how the whole thing turned out. Thanks again for taking the time to watch
I Came for all of it……the photos, stories, outfits, education, and to be supportive! I love everything!!!!! I am totally amazed by your budget and what you were able to accomplish! I want to help name your wife’s dolls 🩷🧡💜!!!! This was a beautiful way to celebrate Pride!!!🌈 I can’t imagine that feeling you had that day in the bank! Yesterday was loving day, and it’s difficult to think that the year my husband was born was the year it became legal in all states for interracial marriages. I cannot fathom being told that I can’t marry who I love just because of race. So I am happy and celebrate with you as an ally. Much respect and love!🌈
I'm glad you enjoyed it - this one was a labor of love for sure. But I LOVE how it turned out. And yeah...feel free to share name ideas and I'll pass them on to Grace. Also, happy belated Loving Day. My friend got married on Loving Day. She is biracial, queer, and in a biracial marriage. Imagine all the laws and minds that had to be changed for her marriage to exist. And the beautiful thing is they didn't realize when they picked the wedding date that it would fall on Loving Day. What a beautiful, happy surprise!
Happy Pride Month!!! I just love it. You went all out. I think we all need a AG pride parade to lift our spirits on this month of acceptance. Thank you!!!
So it didn't occur to me in time to do it for this year, but I just got the idea to do a virtual AG Pride Parade next year as a community event on agig - everyone can create ONE float or one grouping of dolls marching in the parade and we can all post them with the same hashtag and create a huge, glorious, global virtual Pride parade :)
I love this idea! It was such a cool way to discuss your experiences with pride along with seeing such a cool expression of pride with your dolls. I also loved how diverse your collection is and how you displayed each doll!
Thank you so much!! If you enjoyed the story part, I have a Pride-themed Q&A video coming out in another week or so. No fun doll photography in the background, but it would be a good one to listen to as you clean/drive/whatever :)
Love this so much! I can’t wait to see the parade we might create as a community next year! I think that would be so fun!
I know! I'm already so excited about it!!!
The rainbow shorts photo shoot was so cute.
This was an epic undertaking and turned out great!
Thank you! I'm beyond thrilled with how this came together :)
I love your little doll pride parade! So wonderfully and lovingly done. Thanks for sharing your personal stories. Happy Pride Kristie and Grace!❤🌈
You are so welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Happy Pride and I can't even begin to tell you how much I LOVED this video and I'm so glad that you did it and didn't hold back. The Pride Parade...I won't lie, my dolls and I would have driven hours to have been a part of it it's that stinking cute!!!! Logan made my DAY!!! From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for doing this.
I'm so glad!! Knowing that something that brings me so much joy also gives others joy is wonderful. Also, next year I'm going to host an AG Virtual Pride Parade on Instagram and encourage folx to create one float or one grouping of dolls that can march in a parade and when everyone shares their pics with the hashtag, we'll create a huge, joyous, beautiful, global virtual dolly pride parade we can all "attend". The idea just occurred to me yesterday and I'm already looking forward to it :)
@@agtakesover 😮😮😮 OMG, I can’t wait to tell my dolls so we can be ready!!! 💪🏽☺️
That sounds so amazing that I just might have to join Instagram!
@@MegEGC Someone decided to do it this year, so there will be something on June 28th:)
Happy Pride month to you. 😊
As usual your dolls are exquisitely dressed. ❤
Thank you. It was a massive undertaking but totally worth it.
The dolls look amazing!! But more importantly, thank you for being willing to share some of your story. Happy Pride month and every day!
Of course! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I hope you're doing well, Carolyne!
As an Aussie I agree, yay bluey!!!! I loved this video so much, I love hearing your stories about you life. And the dolls looked INCREDIBLE
Bluey is seriously the best children's show I've ever watched (someone said it's a "love letter to parents that children happen to enjoy" and I have to agree). And I'm glad you enjoyed the video - I've been catching up on some of yours but I watch them on TV and have to make time later to go back and comment lol. Up next is your Gwen/12 unboxing :)
So happy its pride and so happy to see this video, I can't wait to see what it's going to bring out from the community, hopefully it can stay positive and not have another unnecessary problem like last year, pop up love to see all these outfits and I love the work that you do, please keep it up.
Well, I totally forgot to change the comment settings but not a single negative comment yet. I'm going to go ahead and leave the settings as is for now and hope for the best. Happy Pride!!
I enjoyed the way you started with some bright clothing choices and extended a wardrobe change video into a video about your experiences with Pride Parades and Pride month! I appreciate how you created your Pride Parade and worked with so many dolls at one time! That was a handful to supervise for outdoor play! Great job! Thank you for sharing your story!
Oh thank you! It was a major undertaking, for sure. I'm thrilled with the results, though, and am glad ppl are getting some joy from it, too :)
I love your pride parade, it's incredible!! I remember for the last few weeks of my junior year of high school my friend and I were constantly looking for updates on the Obergefell case. I was so happy when same-sex marriage was legalized because it meant my mom and her partner, who had been together since 1999, could finally get married! They're celebrating 25 years together and 8 married this August! 🏳️🌈
Oh, I love this. One of my colleagues had already had a commitment ceremony with her wife years before, so when they got legally married they did it on the same day as their original anniversary. That way every year they celebrate *both* on the same day (the day they committed the rest of their lives to each other and the day their government finally got around to recognizing that).
BRAVO!!! We missed the Delaware festival but are meeting our niece & family at the Yellow Springs festival at the end of June. You did a great job not only with the pride parade but also in sharing your experiences with Pride.
Ooh, I don't know anything about the Yellow Springs festival - you'll have to let me know if it's good. Maybe we'll go next year :)
This is fantastic! How cute and OMG Logan 🙈 lol! There are so many cool crafts, my favorite is the flags that look like they’re blowing in the wind. Happy Pride! 🌈
Thank you 🤗 I think Logan is the funniest and so iconic, but in the end those flags also ended up being my favorite detail. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! I love your parade. It looks like a real live parade!!! So well done. I went crazy for the flag twirlers!! And Logan is adorable. All your dolls look great. I got a huge kick out of this. And the voice over is really interesting.
Thanks so much!! I'm so happy with how it turned out and even happier that this project seems to be bringing others as much joy as it brought me :)
Logan looks hilarious, but definitely very accurate! 😂❤ Happy Pride! I loved seeing your doll parade. You did such a great job. The float came out really well.
Thank you so much!! Logan cracks me up, too. And this was a labor of love, for sure. But I'm so glad I just went for it (and that there was very little wind)!!
I love this! I got so excited anytime the ace flag popped up on screen, it means so much to see my sexuality represented!
YES! I know some weren't represented (like the gay male flag that has blues and greens and the intersex flag) but I tried to get a diverse enough flag pack that several identities would be represented!!
Happy Pride . The video is great you never disappoint. The dolls look great in their pride outfits. We have the red remote car and have great fun with it . The float is a nice addition that is Amazing !!!!!!!. I have attended many pride parades with friends in New York. The parades have always been a nice experience that was just the start of the fun and events for us. I will say when I first started attending the parade or pride events it was mainly single people. Over the years I have seen more families attending and the types of events done have changed to include more family friendly events.
You are so creative and this project as you said is really AMAZING the fluttering flags, the banners , Ms Bosco,s and Logan ( lol) a great use of the meet outfits everything The our generation car paintjob totally transforms the car. Two of my friends got married so on a personal level I understand how important marriage equality is, before that they were domestic partners.
This is incredible, I love how all the photos turned out! Happy pride month 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Thank you so much! Happy Pride!!
Love all the work you put into your photo shoots. My favorite is the twirling flags great job!
Thank you so much! I love the flower crowns but I think the twirling flags might be my favorite "extra touch" too :)
I know, just getting to this video - - just let me say, I have had a couple of weeks. Wonderful, fun, creative video! You asked about announcing TM #s. I so appreciate that you do that. I have spent hours trying to identify dolls when people don't identify them. So, it is appreciated.
Thank you for the feedback about mentioning the numbers of the TMs - that seems to be the consensus from those who weighed in, so I'll make a point to do it in the future. I hope everything's okay and that your next few weeks are a bit less eventful :)
@@agtakesover Thanks. Your videos really bring a spot of joy to my days.
Happy Pride 🎉😻🌈
I love all the little outfits you have for all your dolls. They are so cute 🤩. I can only hope to get that kind of collection
Thank you so much! I really have three shirts and one full outfit that are Pride specific from Etsy. Most of it is a lot of creative mix and matching and accessorizing. I often find that if I have a few statement pieces (like the Etsy ones) it makes the whole theme feel more cohesive.
Good job for making this video!! I found it really interesting to hear all your stories! Thank you for always being an authentic voice, happy pride!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
You are so welcome! And in another week or two, I'll post the Pride-themed Q&A I'm doing so even more stories :)
I love how everything thing came out so cute 🎀
Thank you! It was definitely a labor of love and I'm thrilled with how it came out. Exhausted, but thrilled lol.
WOW! You did GREAT Christi! This is sooo cute. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Thanks so much. I'm so glad it is bringing others as much joy as it brought me. Happy Pride!!
Oh my gosh what an undertaking!! But it truly came together so well. The parade is so freaking cute. Thanks for sharing your process & Happy Pride!! ❤🎉
You are so welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it - a massive but totally fun and worthwhile undertaking!!
They look amazing!😍 Happy Pride!♥🧡💛💚💙💜
Aw, thank you - for taking the time to check them out and to comment. I hope you're doing well, Amber :)
Happy Pride! Wow, your parade looked fantastic -- what an amazing photo shoot! I was so excited to see one of your dolls dressed in Pride gear and using a wheelchair. I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user myself, and it sounds silly, but that genuinely made my day. I actually got really behind on watching AG tube videos lately because I was having a chronic illness flare, but I'm looking forward to going back and watching all the cool videos I haven't caught up on yet. You did a great job with everything, but I especially love the flag corps -- my uncle was actually in NYC's Flaggots for many years. I've been to NYC, Philly, San Francisco, and LA Prides so far. I'm sorry about the situation with your library, that sounds really awful. It's great that the comic shop volunteered to help.
How cool about your uncle! And thanks for your empathy about the library. It is scary how much conservatives' threats put well-intentioned people and organizations in a chokehold. I hate it. I *am* very glad it prompted the formation of Delaware Ohio Pride - they've done a lot of good in our community. Also, re: Lark being an ambulatory wheelchair user, I'm so glad it made your day. Someone mentioned EDS or POTS as possible reasons lark could use her wheelchair, so those are two things I'll read up on to learn more about.
@@agtakesover It is very scary what conservatives are doing. I lived in Florida for two years -- and got out *just* as they were cracking down really hard on trans people. I breathed such a sigh of relief when my partner and I got back to the Northeast, where we're from. Ohio seems like it must be pretty nerve-wracking a lot of the time. I'm so glad your town created a Pride, and that it's doing so much good. And yeah, EDS and POTS are both great reasons why people are ambulatory wheelchair users. Fibro, MS, ME/CFS, RA, and Lupus would all work, too. Something that might be worth considering is that often (though by no means always, and not with every disability/chronic illness) many ambulatory wheelchair user use canes some or all of the time, when they aren't in their chairs.
This is so fun and amazing! I lovveeeee this! I’m totally dressing my dolls for pride next year!
I also wanted to add that I also remember when marriage equality became legal, I also cried. And then like a day later I did a wedding photo shoot with my queer dolls 🏳️🌈❤️ I was so elated!
Yay - you definitely should!
Did you ever see the AGMV by Purple Daschund AG (I think that's the right name) about two queer dolls? I think there was a wedding scene at the end. You should find that video if you haven't seen it. It's probably 6-8 years old at this point.
Happy pride! I love this it's so amazing! What creativity as well! Love love love is love! 🏳️🌈💖
Thank you so much!! This one was a labor of love, for sure. But I am thrilled with how it turned out!
I absolutely love this! It makes me want to make a pride parade for my dolls, but I only have 5🤣
I live in Australia and marriage equality didn't happen until December 2017. I only realised I was part of the LGBTQIA+ community earlier that year so it meant a lot to me.
Happy Pride!
I've got good news for you and you'll have PLENTY of time to plan. Next June I'm going to host an AG Virtual Pride Parade event on Instagram (just thought of this today or I would have aimed for this year lol). We can all create ONE float or grouping of dolls to march and together we'll create a massive, joyous, lovely, global Pride Parade we can all enjoy. Just thinking about it makes me smile.
I’m also in Australia and I remember the marriage equality referendum so clearly! I was in the 8th grade at the time and I did a photography project on the pride posters all over the city of Melbourne where i lived at the time! It was a great project but I did it before I was out to anybody. This year is the first year I’ve been out as bisexual for pride! Even though I’m in a heterosexual relationship, pride is still important to my identity. 🏳️🌈
@@AGsunflowers YES! The invisibility is real for bi folx in hetero partnerships, but your identity IS still important! Happy Pride!!
Such a great video! Love Logan 😂 and everyone is so cute ❤
It's crazy how I'm simultaneously not really into Logan and also one of his biggest admirers lmao. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
We Loved all of this video 💯%
Thankyou‼️💗💗💗😊 Kristie & Grace 4 the Beautiful clothes❤❤❤
You are so welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
@@agtakesover Kristie you are so sweet 💗
This is fantastic!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 I love all the dolls, (especially Prim), the outfits, the props, the float, the setting, and the dialogue!! You are so creative!! I loved how you created the float, the wavy flags and the lei headpieces!! Such a beautiful parade!! 🏳️🌈❤️🏳️🌈🧡🏳️🌈💛🏳️🌈💚🏳️🌈💙🏳️🌈💜
Thank you so much!! It was a labor of love but I'm SO happy with how it turned out and knowing that others get such a kick out of it makes it even better :)
Oh and Logan “packing” is hilarious! He’s so cute.
I love this! Your ingenuity is to be admired!
I also assistant choach for my middle schools colorguard (flag twirlers) thanks for including colorguard in your parade!
Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it (and I was in marching band throughout hs - flute one year, piccolo one year, and field commander junior and senior year, so I definitely appreciate the colorguard!!)
OMG, absolutely amazing . ❤
Thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it :)
TOTALLY AWESOME Parade !!!!
Thank you so much! It was a ton of fun!
I'm not really partial to the shimmering glitter or whatever doll, but she looked sooooo good for pride! i also think that ash's skater outfit is too cute! Man my flower crown was not cute in 2015 (?) lolll. Super duper obsessed with this whole project and I know I'm biased but I think this video should go viral. So much work went into it, and it was well worth it!! Margot looks so cute in the short blonde wig. Free Palestine and Happy Pride 🍉🏳🌈
frankly homophobic for them to not want me to be there, i've been queer basically forever so
Primrose DID look perfect for Pride :) I was thinking of taking Ash to the Columbus Pride festival but IDK if I want to since it'll undoubtedly be more crowded than Delaware's.
Facts!
I love your Pride parade!! What a huge undertaking. Just setting up that many dolls and keeping them all from falling over is a job! It was so well done and so well shot.
I’m for sure gonna try those rainbow crowns. I’ve got my “Super Gay” tee shirt on order (thanks to my unknowing super conservative mother in law’s monetary gift). Logan’s enhanced outfit was quite funny🤣.
I really enjoyed hearing about your pride parade experiences. I’ve never been but I’d like to. I hadn’t thought about the implication of businesses supporting the parades and then pulling out this year.
Thank you for all you do for our little doll communities, RUclips and agig. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
So I know you were hoping for an AGIG pride-themed community event and I don't know that I'll do one this year, BUT...next year I'm going to host an AG Virtual Pride Parade and encourage folx to create one float or one grouping of dolls that can march in a parade and when everyone shares their pics with the hashtag, we'll create a huge, joyous, beautiful, global virtual dolly pride parade we can all "attend". The idea just occurred to me yesterday and I'm already looking forward to it :)
@@agtakesover I think that’s a perfect idea. Next year with some planning and it will be amazing.
Super cute video! Happy pride month. 💕
Thank you!!
Such a good job! I loved it! l also love the outfits!
Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Awesome job❤ 😊
Thank you - it was a labor of love and I'm so happy with it!
I love this video. You have inspired me. Now I want to do this. Thank you for the video.
YAY!! I'm already planning to host an event for Pride next year on Instagram. Picture it - A virtual AG Pride parade where everyone who wants to participate creates one float or grouping of dolls to march so we can look at them all together as part of one huge, glorious parade.
I watched this the other day on my TV to get the full effect and I don’t even know if I commented on and I’m not even going to look for it if I already commented lol… but I noticed that I didn’t like it so I’m assuming I didn’t comment. How is that for a run on sentence 😂
This was an incredible undertaking and I enjoyed every second of your video!! You seriously thought of everything including “packing” Logan ….. I’m dying 🤣😂😆
Thanks for putting all the energy into making this 🏳️🌈🥰
Thank you! I feel like you and I get each other - moms working full-time and still managing to find time to take on ridiculously ambitious doll projects and videos lol. Maybe we're just wired differently than most? Whatever the reason, I wouldn't change it :)
You had so many fun details in your parade! It was lots of fun to see your pictures and I enjoyed your stories. I think it's cool that your smaller town is hosting its own festivities now. I loved the details like the head wreaths, the flags, posters, the embroidered shirt, Logan (that cracks me up!) the babies, and more. I'm glad it wasn't windy for the photo shoot. It's hard enough to get dolls to balance. How did you do the facepaint on the dolls? (I don't think you told us, but maybe I missed it)
Oh, I should've mentioned about the "face paint". When i ordered the flags, they came with stickers. The stickers were all too big to work on the dolls, but a few of them were images that contained smaller images I could cut out and use (One was a large sticker of sunglasses but the lenses were rainbows I cut out and put on the dolls' cheeks, and a few were little animals holding the pansexual flag and I was able to cut out just the flag to make some 'facepaint'). I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!
@@agtakesover It worked really well! I'm gonna have to do something like that for my 4th of July display.
Happy pride the dolls look great
Thank you!!
Awe beautiful 🎉❤
Thank you so much!!
Your crafts are always so creative, I wish I lived in Ohio so I could come over and do fun doll crafts with you 😂. I’ve never been to pride, because like you said it’s not for everyone, and I’m the someone, lol. Though I remain gay as ever. Thanks for sharing your memories and photos (little tiny Annika in Mexico, omg.)
Thank you so much! It was a labor of love, for sure, and I'm glad others are enjoying it. And I'm glad you enjoyed seeing young Anika. I made sure to get her permission to share those pics, of course :) Happy Pride!!!!
9:14 Make my wife name her dolls!! 😂
but for real!
I love it all so much 🥺❤️🌈🏳️🌈
YAY!!! That's the joy I was hoping it would spread!!
@@agtakesover well I’m glad it did 😊☺️❤️
My first Pride Parade was when marriage equality passed in Canada, in 2005. I was 15.
Aw, how lovely.
i wanna go to pride in halifax but my parents won't let me until i'm 18 for some reason... ah well that's next year
Sucks to have to wait, but know that Pride will be waiting for you. Happy Pride!!
I love pride month I’m a supporter
I'm glad!
I love the pride flag crop tops!! Super cute
Right?!? I was gonna get some of that fabric at JoAnn so Grace could make some additional things in that pattern, but they didn't have it this year :(
Yes, and the sad part is those of us that are poor and disabled still don't have the right to be married if we rely on SSI sadly. Hopefully soon we have it too.
Yeah, not just sad - INFURIATING. It is absolutely not fair.
Hi I have never been to a Pride Parade. I'd like to know if they welcome straight people as well. My Goddaughter recently came out to me and I know she would love to attend. I would like to take her but I don't want to feel out of place if its really meant to be for LGBTQ. What is your advice?
GO!! Go to Pride with your goddaughter and have a blast! Make sure you take sunscreen, sunglasses, water, etc. You are absolutely welcome!
You are absolutely welcome! Allies are extremely important as well (especially as some loud homophobic people are attempting to push LGBTQ+ rights backward). Your goddaughter is so fortunate to have your support.
Love your video so cool and very educational ❤❤ 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Thank you!! Lots of work, but it was fun and I love the results!
EDS is a good diagnosis for an ambulatory wheelchair user. Or POTs... Or both
Thank you - I'll need to learn more about both of these and appreciate the suggestions.
I am transgender FTM
I hope you are having a wonderful Pride and are surrounded by people who embrace exactly who you are!
@@agtakesover Thanks ☺️🌈
I was wondering where you stood on the Israel Hamas war. Now I am sad to have found out. I haven't been in tje doll community since I figured that most here were probably on the Palestine bandwagon. I was going to ask you because you are more mature than must on the site. Oh well, I feel very alone. You can ban me if you want but I do really enjoy your videos. I had just imagined that we had more in common than we do. I don't even care. I am used to being treated like a pariah lately. 😢
At this point I see no reason to block you. I would ask you to not dismiss my stance as immaturity, though. We obviously receive our information from different sources. I first started thinking more about Palestine when my older daughter (PoliSci major) took an Israel Palestine course in college and began sharing what she was learning. It helped me realize how successfully one narrative about Israel has been pushed in the U.S. but how that doesn't necessarily make it accurate. If you are at all interested in considering different sources of information, I would recommend several IG accounts: @eye.on.Palestine, @theimeu, @letstalkpalestine, @landpalestine, @middleeasteye, and several posts by @sunnmcheaux, to offer just a few. If it is any consolation, I too feel alone in this community. I can literally think of only one agtuber/agiger who has explicitly stated a Pro-Palestine stance. I've seen a couple comments from ppl in support of Isreal. Mostly, though, there is a deafening, heartbreaking silence on the issue and a sense that we should NOT broach the topic in the doll community in order to keep this a respite and a light-hearted place. While I generally try to respect that is what ppl want, I made an exception with the sign in this photo shoot.