It looked like a Gap ad and made me want to buy a lilac sweater. I was very torn.
People keep saying mispronounced. Ellen mispronounced it. Travolta straight made up a new name. His name is now Javert Tromblotvent.
Would it kill her to crack a smile? 21 years old, on the Oscar red carpet. But no, your angsty persona is way more important than appreciating the moment. Sigh.
Fashion by Lisa Frank!
For those who don't understand why wearing headdresses is offensive: Imagine that a bunch of people who have never served in the military started wearing Purple Hearts as jewelry. Now imagine that we're wearing it while dancing at a strip club. It's offensive because we're wearing something we didn't earn. We're…
Once, in a undergrad classroom discussion of cultural appropriation, a white male peer of mine (I'm quarter Onondaga, three quarters Euro-mutt) responded to my raising of this issue with, "I think Native Americans have bigger things to worry about than headdresses." Yes, clearly we do when white people are willing to…
Sad to say, but the suffering of Native Americans is just so deeply whitewashed. I remember learning about the trail of tears in school, and I was surprised by how quickly we walked over something so vital to the geopolitical develop of America. Maybe a first step in this situation is to stop categorizing Native…
By his logic, all the slave-owners that raped their slaves couldn't be racist because they, also, had sex with black women. Fucking ridiculous.
I'm confused. I'm a straight black woman, but I haven't banged any black chicks either - am I racist, too? Dammit.
"If you have never felt oppression don't speak against it."
Yeesh. But I have a feeling that this guy will not be sleeping with any more black girls. Or white girls. Or any girls ever again.