I’m Indian too. But my opinion is that it IS appropriation. Beyonce can wear it as a 5-minute costume. Some Indians can’t. She or any other celeb can don a sari and bindi and people will think they’re being totally appreciative while, meanwhile, an Indian woman can walk into a grocery store with that on and she’d get…

Truth. One of my cousins was accused by his wife of hitting her and abusing her. Everyone, his parents and mine, took his side and called her the most atrocious things (attention-loving bitch, for example). There were only two people that weren’t willing to write her off completely and that was myself and my other…