Aziz has written about reading body language and social cues in his Modern Romance book. His show and comedy has dealt with the kind of behavior this story describes.

Watching Gaslight on TCM right now. The Trump administration makes Charles Boyer’s character look like an amateur.

Agreed!! Kittens are the cutest ever, but cats are the best companions.

I liked her up until the point where she rubbed her ass on a site in Hawaii that is sacred to the native population and then laughed about it on a talk show like it was sooooo funny and quirky.

Biden running would be an excellent way to get 45 a second term.

He can fuck right off forever. Maybe take up knitting. The touchy photos are just the creepy icing on the neoliberal bullshit cake.

For anyone who regularly braves the wilds of twitter, @amyrichau is going to chronicle a female character, actress, or other woman who works on Star Wars every day of this year. #365StarWarsWomen for those interested!

Because Yoda’s a fucking asshole, as were most of the Jedi of his time.

Yes! Skellig Michael is apparently home to puffins for part of the year. Lots of puffins.

I laughed reading this, but I do wish they’d get a nerd ass fan who’s super into it and knows what’s going on to review the next one.

I mean, there are lots of native folks who are coded as other ethnicities due to actually being mixed or just because ethnicity is weird that way. So I wouldn’t agree that you can always just look at someone and know what they are or aren’t. But I definitely agree that the whole blood myth thing is ridiculous and…

“Don’t hold anyone accountable for their own shitty behavior if they insult Trump on twitter! We need allies!”

Honestly, the fact that there are so many gross yet heavily starred comments on this post is disgusting and disheartening, and I say that as a white woman. I don’t know how WOC deal.

I get it, twitter is a hellscape, but it’s where this issue and discussion happened. I haven’t seen anyone besides Jezebel and the native activists involved writing about it yet, but I did find some old articles by Dr. Adrienne Keene that touch on the subject:

She’s far from alone in this. Models and brands and kids at Coachella and whatnot get called out for this all the time. Cher’s just one of the most prominent figures to do it, and she has the questionable song to go along with it. Also doesn’t help that she initially engaged online to double down, whereas your average…

Yeah, that’s the point. They would be getting called out for that video/attire even if they were verifiably 100% native, enrolled, born and raised on a reservation, etc. A headdress isnt any old hat or a costume. It has specific cultural and spiritual meaning, and it has to be earned AFAIK. Not all tribes/nations…

Sure, they can do what they want, and if what they want is to appropriate and bastardize and fetishize native culture for their own benefit, they can deal with being called out for the assholes they are.

One thing I’ve learned from listening to indigenous activists for the past few years is that it isn’t about who you claim, it’s about who claims you back. What efforts has Cher made to connect with, learn from, and contribute to the community she believes she is a part of? If she hasn’t even tried to make that…

Native women telling a wealthy white celebrity that her actions are harmful and asking her to stop is not “the left targeting its own soldiers” though, it’s a marginalized group asking an extremely privileged person to be better. If Cher or any other personality could be turned or taken down by an oppressed and…

Boosting. Will be on the lookout for the Medium piece.