Where Kens Become Tens: The Creation of Ken Land

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Non-Traditional Crisis

Director:

Saanvi Kumar

Under-Secretary-General:

Mary Konstorum

The Barbies fought back for their rights. The Mojo Dojo Casa House has been changed back into the Barbie Dream House. All seems right in Barbie Land. However, after getting a taste of being at the top of the hierarchy, the Kens have reverted to second-class citizens in the Barbie World. While the Barbies are living in a life built just for them, the Kens lack stable housing, representation in the government, and equal rights. Not content with how they are living, the Kens have decided to challenge the Barbies and build a government of their own.

The Kens wish to create a Ken Land where their opinions will finally be valued, and they will be able to interact with Barbies as equals. However, all of the land, food, and money they would take with them to create Ken Land would have to be given to them by Barbies, who see Kens as inferior beings and incapable of living as their own. They certainly don’t believe in the potential of Kens after seeing the way they incorporated patriarchy into Barbie Land. Rather than giving them land of their own, the Barbies would rather let the Kens take barren land and have them form their country there.

In this battle to create Ken Land, the Kens will have to believe in themselves when no one else does to create a land where they can finally feel free, while the Barbies strive to maintain the perfect world that the Kens once tried to destroy.