Lizzie Eastham and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show
"Blind Barbie"

In conjunction with the American Federation for the Blind, Mattel have released a new Barbie Fashionista Doll with a white cane and sunglasses. We ask is this inclusion or tokenism?

An article posted on facebook by the Currier Mail has attracted some ugly comments: thanks to the volunteers of Vision Australia Radio Adelaide we bring those comments to life like never before.

Meanwhile, Sam tries to justify buying a Barbie Doll and claiming it on his tax return as "research" and Lizzie takes the Doll out and about to get some comments from members of the VI community.

Studio 1 welcomes any input from our listeners. If you have any experience or thoughts about issues covered in this episode or believe there is something we should be talking about.

EMAIL: studio1@visionaustralia.org or leave comment on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VARadioNetwork

A big thank you to Lily; Steven; Lenore and Shianne. Special thanks go to Jodie Willis-Roberts for bringing the facebook post to our attention.

Extra Special thanks go to Matt; Ron; Pam; John; Peter; Brenden; Ian; Michael; Carol and Shelley for their work on the facebook comments.

Apologies to any listeners who can't get a certain Aqua song out of their heads, but if anyone wants to listen to the variations we played in this episode you can find them here:
Orchestral Arrangement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2qGpX33OOo
"Epic" Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es5lZRPRQlM
"Bardcore" Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNm3Ggv01Ns

Vision Australia gratefully acknowledges the support of the Community Broadcasting Foundation for Studio 1.

Studio 1 airs in Darwin and Adelaide 8pm Wednesdays, and 3pm Wednesdays in other states.

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