#comfortdolls

[red--rapunzel]

Can I ask you all for a biiiig favor? My friend and I started an organization called You Are Loved Dolls. (Will you follow us @yaldolls?) Here’s what we do: We have a team of wonderful volunteers who hand make the most amazing dolls. We send the finished dolls to the wonderful team at RAICES (@raicestexas), who have been amazing to us, and they distribute the dolls to the traumatized children that are being unfairly detained at the border. RAICES is helping these children and so are our dolls. Many of these babies have gone through horrific circumstances, been separated from their families, neglected and/or abused, and so much more. Plus they are away from everything they’ve ever known. These dolls are really helping them feel like they are safe, loved & cared about. To me, love has no borders ❤️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ #youareloved #youareloveddolls #yaldolls #dollsforkids #comfortdolls #spreadlove #onelove #peace #love #givelove #givelovegetlove #karma https://www.instagram.com/p/BtSjQt5FvIK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=la71g4bdkttd

[zerqueluroo]

Meet PooPoo, my PMDD impulse buy. I’d had a micro grant disperse. The only available Black squishy dolls were twice her price. I liked her silly little face & chubbiness.

I’m unconcerned with the whole thing about these cheap knockoffs steal the work of real reborn artists. I’m all for artist making their due. But the whole reborn world is dominated by wealthier white women all of whom benefit from stolen land and stolen labor. Many living on stolen land. I descend from stolen people. So again, unbothered.

I’m in the midst of a long term art/healing project that centers dolls PooPoo is the sixth member of my comfort doll squad.

Here’s the rest of them. NaNa, KiKi, DeeDee, CeeCee, and GiGi. They go with me to doctors appointments, been in surgery with me.

I’ve made them clothes. They have toys & dolls of their own.

Through them I’m healing my mother wound. Healing through descending from people forced to do care labor. Healing through how I’ve experienced mammiefication. Healing through how cheaply folks have valued my care & love. Reparative work.

Along with my cat, they make up my family. It’s sweet and sad, and it’s mine.

Anyway here’s PooPoo. I’m unsure if I want another silicone baby doll. I would like a bigger baby to hold, but the stickiness is a lot. The powdering is kinda fun.