The year Drag Barbie came out was my best ever. Long leggy hi-octane black-patent thigh-high boots with diamond-studded drill bits for heels, Prussian blue faux-fur shortie jacket, poofy Bichon Frisé hair, black pearl choker and lashes that go on like Whoa, Nellie! She occupied the top drawer of my highboy hidden from prying judgy-eyes, until the dog dragged her under the sofa and chomped her Tickle My France-y mani-pedi to bits. I envied the doll’s lustrous pompadour, my own close-cropped buzz-cut a perennial oppressive albatross; a control mechanism my permanently house-coated mother intended for me to grow old in, straight. 'Drag Barbie' was published in The Woolf, November 2022.
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