{"id":705,"date":"2015-11-06T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=705"},"modified":"2016-01-08T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:34:12","slug":"barbie-liberation-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/barbie-liberation-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie Liberation Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a project fostered by <a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/rtmark\/\">\u00ae\u2122ark<\/a>, the BLO is\u00a0a group of artists and activists involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/culture-jamming\/\">culture jamming<\/a>. The\u00a0project came to attention\u00a0in 1993 by switching the voice boxes on talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls. The BLO performed &#8220;surgery&#8221; on hundreds of\u00a0dolls and then returned them to the shelves of stores, an action they refer to as shopgiving. This action resulted in girls opening their new Teen Talk Barbie to hear it say phrases such as &#8220;vengeance is mine&#8221; and boys hearing their G.I. Joe say &#8220;The beach is the place for summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>External Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rtmark.com\/blo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barbie Liberation Organization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sponsored by RTMark,\" target=\"_blank\">Video of modified Barbie dolls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a project fostered by \u00ae\u2122ark, the BLO is\u00a0a group of artists and activists involved in culture jamming. The\u00a0project came to attention\u00a0in 1993 by switching the voice boxes on talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls. The BLO performed &#8220;surgery&#8221; on hundreds of\u00a0dolls and then returned them to the shelves of stores, an action they refer to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/barbie-liberation-organization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barbie Liberation Organization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[180,79],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fictions-alternative-structures-and-mock-institutions","category-projects","tag-culture-jamming","tag-rtmark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}