Her Identity as an Extraterrestrial

"Don't bother looking for my belly button, boys-

You won't find it."

"At this very moment, little girls are whispering their woes

into my hollow solar plexus."

"planning an Earth girl's emancipation."

My favorite poem in Kinky is called: Barbie, Her Identity As An Extraterrestrial Finally Suspected, Bravely Battles the Interrogation Of The Pentagon Task Force Who's Captured Her. (VERY Long title, I know) This poem caught my attention because all throughout the quarter, as we read about Barbie, not often is she referred to as an extraterrestrial. It was definitely a unique outlook on Barbie and her effect on us. It was a fresh and funny approach, that in my opinion, holds a lot of truths.

"By some accounts, Barbie has strange and unnatural powers. Like an alien from another planet, she enters the home of unsuspecting victims and turns them into aliens too."

The passage in Barbie's Queer Accessories, Sister From Another Planet, also refers to Barbie as an extraterrestrial being. However, in BQA, Barbie is dealt with more negatively where she is possessing women and children. But in Kinky she is emancipating "Earth girls". Two completely different ideas involving alien Barbie. Possessing or Emancipating? Which is it? They have opposite meanings and therefore she cannot be both. Right?