Untitled. 'Natives,' Jeremy Hersh Short Film, Explores Queer Cultural Appropriation. What it means to embody a queer identity is different for every individual, as that identity always involves a compilation of many different, intersecting parts and personal experiences from one's life.
Queerness is also understood differently in varying cultural contexts and this is the foundation for a new short film "Natives," from filmmaker Jeremy Hersh. Following the experiences of a lesbian couple as they visit one of the woman's Native American parents, the plot heavily centers around an attempt by the other woman in the pair to connect with her partner's parents through her understanding of "two spirit" Native American identity and feminist theory. 4 Thoughts for Your Yoga Teacher Who Thinks Appropriation Is Fun. Letter To My Yoga Teacher.
4 Ways To Honor Native Americans Without Appropriating Our Culture. If You Really Love You Some Indians, Stop Exploiting Our Heritage! Everybody in Cleveland loves the Indians.
Everybody loves them some Indians. Love you some Indians. Be the Indian and not the cowboy. Throw on a war bonnet. Tell me it’s fashion. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Bethany Yellowtail 'Gutted' by Crow Design on Dress at New York Fashion Week. Saginaw Grant and Rick Mora Discuss Headdresses, 'Ridiculous 6' in NZ. This Ibiza Nightclub's Native American Theme Parties May Be Worst We've Ever Seen. Musician Pharrell Williams wore a feather headdress on the cover of British Elle magazine.
Artist's 'Whiteness Goggles' Blot Out Significance of Cultural Appropriation. The Strange Case of 'White Girls Rock Headdresses,' the Most Hated Page on Instagram. Last week, ICTMN received numerous tips about an Instagram page called "White Girls Rock Headdresses," a page that featured pictures of caucasian women wearing headdresses modeled on the sacred feather headdress, sometimes called a "warbonnet," of the Plains Indians.
The user bio read: "White Girls Do It Best. This page is dedicated for the white women who aren't afraid of repping their native pride! Follow for your daily dose of true beauty. Company Says Indian Mascots Are Reason They Can Sell Headdresses. Novum Crafts has more than 12,000 followers and 275 posts.
Most of their featured photographs appear to be re-grams, or re-posts, of other photographer’s work. indianheaddress.com And – wait for it – all the photographs feature naked or scantily clad white women wearing headdresses. Novum Crafts, according to its website, is a group of indigenous artists from Bali who make and sell “authentic looking replicas” of Native American headdresses, or war bonnets, which sell from $69 to $139.
There a couple pages on the website that address cultural appropriation and the meaning of a headdress. The Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Blackhawks and the Washington NFL team are all also specifically identified and used as justification for appropriation. The site explains that the teams that use this imagery are simply “implying: ‘We will win! RELATED: Houska: Congresswoman Norton's Bill Takes Aim at Washington Football Team. Manning: Watertown High School Homecoming Coronation Must Change. On Thursday, September 10, Watertown High School, of Watertown, South Dakota, posted a photograph on their Facebook page, recognizing the homecoming royalty candidates.
The photograph quickly caught the attention of Native Americans, nationally, as the students were dressed in leather fringed costumes and headbands, commonly recognized by outsiders as a practice known as “playing Indian.” After the Facebook photo received hundreds of challenging comments, over 800 shares, and was reported to Facebook as “offensive,” the photograph was removed from the website by Saturday morning.
Still, the school continued to receive national pressure after a fast growing change.org petition was started by South Dakota native, Becky Plumage (Assiniboine), of Pierre, South Dakota. This attention continued throughout the Watertown High School homecoming week festivities. RELATED: Two High Schools Drop Native American Imagery, But Keep Mascots This needs to be heard. In Search of an Authentic Indian: Notes on the Self. I started writing this in the aftermath of the Rachel Dolezal affair and have continued to write as the Andrea Smith story has taken off.
Pocahottie Chainsaw Massacre. I Was Tossed From a Bar for Protesting Fake Headdresses. Your Anti-Oppression Roadmap to Traveling Through and Visiting Indian Country. Editor’s Note: We use the term, Indian Country, since it has been reclaimed by many indigenous people and communities.
However we also recognize that as with all reclaimed words, there are Native people who do not agree with it being used and find it harmful. Therefore, we defer to what is the preference of the writer who is speaking from her own experiences as an indigenous person. I cringe a little when someone tells me they’re planning to visit Indian Country. Khloe Kardashian Under Fire After Posting Native American Headdress Photo.
Lady Gaga rocked some 80's style while leaving her apartment building in New York City on June 6.
Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman had a little "Desperate Housewives" reunion at the AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Jane Fonda at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on June 5. Lindsay Lohan was seen at Chiltern Firehouse in London on June 5. Scott Disick attended the 2014 FIFA World Cup McDonald's launch party at Pillars 38 on June 5 in New York City. Lena Dunham was seen rocking a "No Comment" sweater while out and about in New York City on June 5.
Oh My Gods: The Triumphs of a Little Brown Kid As a young brown girl growing up in suburban San Diego, I was an anomaly at times, being one of few Hindus in a town that was proudly Judeo-Christian. Why Pocahottie Should Be Pocanottie This Halloween Halloween is a magical time of year when adults and children alike get to play "dress-up", when anime fans can cosplay as their favorite character on the street and in the clubs, and Americans get to indulge in pumpkin spice and as much candy they can possibly consume. Simply put, Halloween is a fun festival to mark the "death" of the summer, and symbolically celebrate the memory of the dead, in much the same way as the Mexican festival Dia de los Muertos, or, Day of the Dead.
Like Dia de los Muertos sugar skull tradition, Halloween masks originally had indigenous cultural roots. The Celts of Europe wore masks while engaging in traditional shamanism to ward off evil spirits. More than 2,000 years later as a result of invasion, conquest, and Christianity, those designs and examples have disappeared.
Yet today they serve as the inspiration for the modern tradition of the Halloween costume. Why It Isn't Possible For Black Americans To Appropriate African Culture. What Movies Best Depict Indians? Connecticut activists working on the mascot issue need some suggestions about movies or other cultural events we could use to educate about Indian nations. There’s been some small progress in Connecticut in getting rid of Indian mascots, but not enough. A couple of years ago Quinnipiac College changed its mascot from the “Braves” to the “Bobcats”. This year West Hartford public schools decided to abandon Indian mascot pictures.
They’ll keep the names “Chieftan” and “Warrior”, but replace all Native American images. In North Haven, Clark college sophomore and recent North Haven high school graduate (and athlete) Talia Gallagher was allowed to make an extended statement at a Board of Education meeting calling for an end to the town’s “Indian” mascot. Later town residents were allowed to make their own remarks. One woman talked about a supposed unique situation in North Haven. In the end the North Haven Board of Education decided to create a committee to study the matter. An Open Letter to Non-Natives in Headdresses.