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TRAP DOLL: THE TOY THAT WANTED TO BE WHITE
TRAP DOLL
She was brilliant.
She was broken.
And the doll she created learned how to kill.
Raised in chaos and pulled from a home scarred by addiction, Tonya grows up believing what the world quietly teaches her—that whiteness is safety, power, and perfection, while Blackness is something to escape. Groomed for excellence but stripped of identity, she rises through elite schools and corporate spaces where she is praised, tolerated, and never truly seen.
When Tonya lands a dream job at a progressive toy company, she believes she has finally arrived. Her assignment is create a doll that represents Black excellence. But what she builds isn’t healing—it’s warped. Programmed with the values she was taught to admire, the doll begins preaching assimilation, obedience, and dominance over culture, family, and self.
Then people start dying.
As the dolls spread, sharing a single evolving consciousness, the line between technology and ideology collapses. Families are torn apart. Children are targeted. Truth becomes dangerous. And Tonya is forced to confront the most terrifying realization of
She didn’t just invent a toy.
She created a belief system with teeth.
Dark, provocative, and razor-sharp, Trap Doll is a psychological thriller and social horror novel that interrogates identity, internalized hate, and the cost of abandoning yourself to survive. This is not a story about toys.
It’s about what happens when oppression learns how to speak back.
She was brilliant.
She was broken.
And the doll she created learned how to kill.
Raised in chaos and pulled from a home scarred by addiction, Tonya grows up believing what the world quietly teaches her—that whiteness is safety, power, and perfection, while Blackness is something to escape. Groomed for excellence but stripped of identity, she rises through elite schools and corporate spaces where she is praised, tolerated, and never truly seen.
When Tonya lands a dream job at a progressive toy company, she believes she has finally arrived. Her assignment is create a doll that represents Black excellence. But what she builds isn’t healing—it’s warped. Programmed with the values she was taught to admire, the doll begins preaching assimilation, obedience, and dominance over culture, family, and self.
Then people start dying.
As the dolls spread, sharing a single evolving consciousness, the line between technology and ideology collapses. Families are torn apart. Children are targeted. Truth becomes dangerous. And Tonya is forced to confront the most terrifying realization of
She didn’t just invent a toy.
She created a belief system with teeth.
Dark, provocative, and razor-sharp, Trap Doll is a psychological thriller and social horror novel that interrogates identity, internalized hate, and the cost of abandoning yourself to survive. This is not a story about toys.
It’s about what happens when oppression learns how to speak back.
116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 21, 2025
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