ephemeral archive #1: justice for kewpie girls
Trinket Girls owe their very existence to Kewpie Girls. In this essay, I will...
hihi! If you’re new here, welcome to the first issue of Ephemeral Archive, my monthly roundup of everything I was loving, coveting, obsessing over, thinking about, writing about, etc. last month.
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obsessing over: Kewpies
I separate plastics into two categories in my mind. There are the kinds of plastics that I walk into Target and get freaked out by as I imagine bottles and bags and crap being dumped into landfills. And then there are the little plastic trinkets and treasures, which, for some reason, my brain gives a pass to because…they are cute.
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But in an era in which modern womanhood means buying yourself cute toys and affixing them to your bag Jane Birkin-style, there is an underrepresented class of Cute Little Guy Collector we need to talk about: Kewpie Girls. Because, listen closely: If we didn’t have Kewpie Girls, we quite literally wouldn’t have Snoopy Girls or Sonny Angel Girls or Monchichi Girls or any TRINKET GIRLS AT ALL.
And I’m not just saying this because I got Kewpies tattooed