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Just went on a bit of a follow spree on my “official” blog, because I’m not on here nearly enough and I miss you people! What’s new?
I feel the best way to ever describe now what cultural appropriation is would be to ask someone to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas and watch how Santa Claus reacts to Jack Skellington’s version of Christmas and how Jack overall reacts…
(Source: tradeyourbrokenwings)
On her way to the Black Hills powwow this past weekend Asia Black Bull, (Lakota/Korean) a jingle dress dancer and current Miss Teen Rosebud from the Rosebud Rez, and her family stopped to pick out a Halloween costume.
When she came across… the “Indian princess” costume, she took offense and stated, “I am not a Halloween Costume!”
You certainly are not. Keep dancing and representing your Oyate you make us proud and help to show the world that we are more than costume.
Our history mirrors that of our relative. Like our relative, our spirit cannot be broken nor confined and like our relative we will continue to live as we are meant to live. Don’t become enslaved to the trappings of the Empire.
Men have been fathers, partners, friends, companions to women for thousands and thousands of years. This has not stopped them from murdering, raping, assaulting, and abusing women, nor from building complex, intersecting social systems for oppressing them in every way.
So believe me that being a father and husband sure as fuck doesn’t mean that you’re not a misogynist pig merrily derailing, slandering and damaging while you roll about in the slop of your white male privilege. And frankly, I don’t give a damn about how many women you know if you’re just going to use them as silent props to protect you from the Big Bad Feminists, and from taking any responsibility whatsoever for your words and actions.
