Tag: culturally accurate dolls

• S3 E13: Samantha Ong on the need for representation in toys, colorism in Asian culture, and how her culturally accurate dolls sold out on launch day.

  

  Samantha Ong is a photographer turned CEO of her own toy company. She talks about growing up in Australia, living in Canada, becoming a mom, and wanting her kids to have the representation she didn’t have when she was growing up.

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  September 10, 2023

  Asian Canadian Guests, Beauty standards, Business, chinese canadian, Media representation, Microaggression, Racism at school/in childhood, Racism within the Asian community

  asian women entrepreneurs, asian women in podcasting, australians in canada, chinese doll, culturally accurate dolls, entrepreneur moms, filipino doll, indian doll, joeydolls, korean doll, nuancespod, representation in toys, vietnamese doll