249. Dolls of Color Month

Over in the land of Instagram where I'm spending much of my dolly time these days, it's Dolls of Color month. The organizer has given us 30 tasks, 1 for each day of the month, September. Tasks meaning a photo depicting the theme of the day, which we post with the hashtag #docmonth, and each theme has to include/be about a doll of color.

There have been other monthly photo themes I've noticed since joining instagram, but this is the first that I thought I'd give a go. I think Summer was one of them, and being on the other side of the equator it well didn't happen. 

So let's see how I go. 

The list is the very first posting under the hashtag #docmonth. Which will mean by now a lot of loading. With explanations where thought appropriate by the organizer but the biggest pointer I took was that each theme was open to interpretation. The list:

1. All my dolls of color

2. Blackout (meaning of African origin)

3. Brown town (your other brown dollies)

4. Asian

5. Yellow

6. Faith

7. Diversity

8. Character race bend 

9. Culture

10. Real life hero

11. In memory of 9/11

12. My fav celebrity

13. Plants

14. Aesthetic

15. Fantasy (not western/European fairy tale)

16. Social justice

17. Careers

18. Beauty (as deemed by different cultures around the world)

19. Animals... I was thinking of swapping this with 29.

20. AG characters

21. Time periods

22. Travel

23. Friendship

24. Rainbow

25. Famous scenes

26. Childhood

27. Black and white

28. Create a a DOC character

29. Freestyle... I'm thinking of swapping this with 19 because the 19th is talk like a pirate day

30. Fav agiger/tuber

So what is meant by the term Doll of Color?  My interpretation: From the list I took it to mean the dolls I had that were medium skin toned, dark skin toned or were what I thought to be of Asian appearance. 

I posted this

The naming: top of chair... Tuxedo the kitten, mini Cecile

Back row, left to right.. Miss thingymejig (school teacher), Storri, Zara, Captain Miriam Eastpoint, Miss Wright (school teacher), Mariana, Whynta, Hanalei, India, Danielle Josefina

Front row.. Cadence, Zoe, Calista, Mercedes, Trinity, Pudding the Chocolate Himalayan kitten, with mini Addy, Jerika, 62.2, DeeJay and Calista

there are some Lil Sprouts and Mega Blox American Girls that are not named.

It was after this that I looked up the meaning for Person of colour. 

Wikipedia has Person of color. ... The term "person of color" (plural: people of color, persons of color; sometimes abbreviated POC) is used primarily in the United States to describe any person who is not white. The term encompasses all non-white peoples, emphasizing common experiences of systemic racism." That was the immediate summary as presented by google. I have read on and also gone to other definitions linked in the text. 

POC certainly has a deeper meaning than what I thought, and I hope I do the month respectfully, and no one is offended, I am not a POC.
 

I do think I've left one girl out of the Day 1 and that is Tzeitel, my Rebecca. I liked the idea of her Jewish background, and that her family came to America from Russia, I named her after the eldest daughter from the Fiddler on the Roof. I will try to include her in the other days. Ah, and Maplelea Kerin. She is Maplelea Friend KMF11, medium skintone. And my Lea Clarke (GOTY) twins Mikarleah and Lauralee, and their sunkissed vinyl.
Hmmm, I think that's it... Kit, Emily, Pippa, Bridget, Bryndl, Antoinette, Tauralie, Bounty, Rapunzel,  Andy, Maddie, Sadie, Meganne, Lawrie, Llewellyn, mini Julie.. all white, you can go now.