Content warning: The following story contains spoilers for "Barbie."
I am a preteen girl, growing up in Brooklyn in the 2000s. My dad, for reasons I do not understand in retrospect, has a home delivery subscription to the New York Post. I am flipping through the paper when I see a small news article that catches my eye. A middle schooler in New York was suspended for wearing a T-shirt that said "Barbie is a lesbian." What?!
I don't know exactly when I read about this, since the Post covered both when Natalie Hodges's mom filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education and when she ultimately settled the case, winning $35,000 and a new Education Department dress code policy that made students' free speech rights clear. Natalie Hodges doesn't pop up in any more media coverage. I've never met anyone who remembered this story when I mentioned it to them.
I am a preteen girl, growing up in Brooklyn in the 2000s. My dad, for reasons I do not understand in retrospect, has a home delivery subscription to the New York Post. I am flipping through the paper when I see a small news article that catches my eye. A middle schooler in New York was suspended for wearing a T-shirt that said "Barbie is a lesbian." What?!
I don't know exactly when I read about this, since the Post covered both when Natalie Hodges's mom filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education and when she ultimately settled the case, winning $35,000 and a new Education Department dress code policy that made students' free speech rights clear. Natalie Hodges doesn't pop up in any more media coverage. I've never met anyone who remembered this story when I mentioned it to them.
- 7/26/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
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