Immerse, Festivals and Events, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Amanda T. McIntyre and Jarula M.I. Wegner ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
With a frilly dress and bonnet, carrying a replica of an infant, the traditional Baby Doll is a playful Carnival character with a serious message about the social roles of women and men. A new generation of activists have adopted the Baby Doll as form of feminist intervention, write Amanda T. McIntyre and Jarula M.I. Wegner — like the masqueraders behind the Belmont Baby Dolls band