The specific Apache tribe she claimed she had heritage of has said they have no record of her or any of her family in their tribal rolls.

I’m not a hat guy. Hats look weird on me. I guess I can’t pretend to be Native American, either, since headdresses qualify as hats. 

My dude, I didn’t call you homophobic. I suggested that you are tragically, cartoonishly heteronormative. You literally said that, with equal coding of queer and non-queer, the sensible conclusion is that she is not queer. Do you not get what that is?

I think Arya was a character that queer people could identify with, because she didn’t fit into heteronormative gender roles and had no romantic attachments to prove otherwise. You could also read her shapeshifting as a metaphor for being trans or maybe non-binary. She was the most prominent and popular character that…

But it would take them having to come up with new lands and be actually creative instead of treading over the same well-known lands and story. It’s the same reason Star Wars is too freaked out to move beyond the Skywalker era (I know they’re supposedly bout to but I’ll believe it when I see it).

This particular situation is a bad one for discussing the complicated overlap between genetics, ancestry, and personal history - she was famous for claiming to be a member of a specific tribe in the US and wearing traditional dress to the Academy Awards. If she wasn’t actually Native American - by tribal affiliation,…

Metacritic.

Tyler, I understand what you are saying but I suggest you read Jacqueline Keeler’s Substack article on this. It’s very long and not all opinion. She does a good job pulling up ancestry as well as pulling old articles and interviews that paint a picture that will make you question Sacheen. It’s not about disrespect.…

So, let me get this straight: you feel like there is equal evidence of the character being queer or non-queer, so you’re sure she can’t be queer?

Can’t tell if unfortunately worded opinion or terrible ableist joke.

It’s weird to suggest that an actor’s strong belief about unspoken characteristics of her character would be so derided by a viewer/reader. For anything that isn’t explicitly on the page, her take is infinitely more valid than yours.

The report said 6 to 10 generations ago, which is pretty far removed, so I think it’s easy for people to get that mixed up. But it wasn’t just Trump and conservatives that lampooned her. “Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and…

She *claimed* she suffered a lot, but her relatives dispute many of her claims, like that her father was abusive, or that they lived in a home without electricity (honestly many of her claims sound more like a stereotypical negative portrayal of a native American, with all the tropes about drunkenness and abuse).  She…

It’s pretty funny to call the dispute “convoluted” when it’s basically her sisters saying that they’re Mexican, not Apache as she claimed. It gets convoluted when you suggest that a professional journalist conspired to posthumously ruin someone’s reputation, just for the fun of it.

I’m Mexican-American, and while it’s pretty obvious from looking at my family that we have indigenous ancestry, I’d never claim to be Native American, at least not in any meaningful way. I also have French ancestry, but it would be pretty weird to change my name to Jacques and wear a beret everywhere I go. That’s…

But they’re Mexican-American, so they most likely do have significant Native ancestry, just not the ancestry Littlefeather claimed and they definitely don’t have any significant cultural connection to any Native groups.

Can’t we have one twitter thread that doesn’t end with us digging up a corpse?

A DNA test proved that Elizabeth Warren does have Native American ancestry

I mean it seems realistic she wouldn’t be happy about it in these circumstances. Sex worker unions are aimed at people who actively want to be sex workers, not someone who is intimidated by some outside force or has little to no other options

And yet the majority of sex workers are forced into the profession by circumstances, poverty, or even people they trusted. It’s a far more complex issue than people want to think about. It’s easier to say sex work is always a net positive for the workers when that’s factually untrue except for the lucky exceptions.