Barbie fills in the years 60 years of age, and makes ongoing adjustments in order to stay current. Now announcing the leketøysprodusenten Mattel, which stands behind the docks, that their next collection consists of docks with both wheelchair and prosthesis.
One of those who cheered loudly when the news was announced was the writer and artist Jessica Jewett (37). She is born with the disease leddsykdommen Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, and is wheelchair user.
– Excuse me while I cry for 300 years, because this was the toy I needed that little girl. I’ll definitely buy one. I don’t care that I’m 37 years old, she writes in a post on Twitter.
Y’all, I just read that the new wheelchair @Barbie is going to come with a ramp to make the Barbie dream house wheelchair accessible. Excuse me while I cry for 300 years because this was the toy In needed as a little girl. I’m absolutely going to buy one. I don’t care if I’m 37. pic.twitter.com/p0aYh68al5
— Jessica Jewett Jones (@JJ9828) February 12, 2019
In the course of growing up in the 80’s, she has no recollection of that she found some docks or toy which she felt represented in the same way as her friends.
It took me back to when I was 6 years old, and asked mom and grandma why there were no docks that looked like me. I had a feeling that I was different, but understood never why this was something that should be hidden, ” she says in an interview with the Huffington Post.
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Accessibility for people with disabilities is a recurrent problem in many places. In an opinion piece published in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet in December, writes the general secretary of Funksjonshemmedes fellesorganisasjon, Lilly Ann Elvestad, that the consequences for the lack of facilitation for disabled people in school are serious.
– Incomplete testimony and kunnskapshull makes it difficult to hang out with and move forward. In the worst case, and not infrequently, it is the direct cause of the disability insurance, she writes.
In a previous interview also tells the general secretary of the Norwegian Handikapforbund, Sunniva Ørstavik, about a study from 2016 that one of three people with disabilities had experienced hate speech, incitement of violence or harassment.
this is Precisely why Jewett extra pleased that the collection also will include a wheelchair ramp, that fits to the famous dokkehuset.
” The fact that they thought “Hey, we need to get into a ramp so that children can get with the wheelchair into the house” is extremely important. It extends the lekesituasjonen to the situations we encounter out in real life through children’s imaginations.
Mattel informs that the collection will be on sale from the autumn of 2019.
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