Wendy Tsao's Bratz Dolls

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Artist Wendy Tsao has filled this void by transforming Bratz dolls into famous feminist figures in history. She credits Sonia Singh as her inspiration, utilizing her techniques to repaint the faces with soft features and then make the clothes of the famous women. Dolls include author JK Rowling, Primatologist Jane Goodall, and Malala Yousafzai whose fight for education has garnered her a Nobel Peace prize.

“As a parent, I’d love for my child to play with a young J.K. Rowling or Malala and have conversations about them,” she wrote.

How many American girls have had an opportunity to play with a doll in a head scarf or be so close in age and accomplish so much? "I wonder if a child who plays with a doll of someone who is a real person who

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