FLINTA* Voices create space to speak without restriction, without dilution, and without apology. We opened our platform to FLINTA* writers and creators who confront and redefine gendered realities, who understand empowerment not as a trend, but as necessity, and who expose patriarchy not as abstraction, but as lived experience.

This manifesto is a companion piece to my Baby Paradise Trilogy, a multimedia body of  work dissecting trauma, taboo and the politics of spectatorship. NOT A DADDYLAND. At its center, a daddy’s girl named Baby Paradise. Barbie doll–playing sex worker. Puppet. Puppeteer. Myth. Machine. CYBORG BARBIE. Born out of post-#MeToo survival, this manifesto salutes my artistic mommies — from Valeska Gert to Donna Haraway — and all the lost girls who refuse to disappear. I believe in a Cyborg Barbie Manifesto as MUTATION — MUTILATION.

A CYBORG BARBIE MANIFESTO

(Daddy-cated to all the living, broken and resurrected dolls out there)

DARLING.

BITCH.

We are your daddy girls.

A good doll —

Angel

Lost her voice.

In compliance.

DADDY-CATION

We smile.

PARADISE LOST.

Hades is king.

DADDY is love.

BIG-DADDY is cult.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Anything you want.

CYBORG BARBIE.

Your human plastic dream.

Sacrificed on TV screen.

Heads, legs, torsos, bellies, hair.

To be seen is to be sold.

Dismembered.

Spit.

Eyes gouged out with lollipops.

YOU ARE STILL WATCHING.

The peephole makes you whole again.

DO YOU LIKE IT,

DADDY,

DO YOU LIKE IT?

Underworld in pink.Sister Games in Paradise City.

Prostituierte, Nutten, Huren, Schlampen —

die ganze Nacht sind wir Mutanten.

Sex work is work.

Punk is revolution.

We’re in charge of your orgasmic transformation —

of —

DADDY, PLEASE.

About the Author

Anna Valeska Pohl is a Berlin-based performance artist and writer-director working at the intersection of performance, film and feminist theory. She is the founder of bambule.babys, a breeding ground for unruly femininity and queer futures.

Her ongoing Baby Paradise Trilogy (2018–) confronts body politics, daddy culture and the commodification of FLINTA* bodies. The first part, Baby Paradise, was named a “must-see show” by The Guardian at the Edinburgh Fringe. Pohl holds a Master’s in Philosophy and was named one of Bavaria’s emerging artists to watch by Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Instagram: @annavaleskapohl