Honeslty, as I see it, as long as you are not belittling (ex. wearing feathers in your hair and claiming that you're so in touch with your 'native' side because you hate shoes* or wear a gross halloween costume) the culture that you borrow from its okay to wear. There are some really good Native designers out there if…

I'm sorry, I can't get over this Selma thing. Two things:

Yeah, I keep getting sideswiped by this. I want to believe things are better. But I think now my nerves are just raw by coming into privilege and racism's subtler forms, that when it's this overt - the stupid, it burns us.

What's even worse is, these people see nothing wrong in their hypocrisy. It's ok for you to vote for American Sniper, which is basically one long ass political statement in the form of a movie, but Selma gets no nods because the cast felt the need to put on t-shirts and stand for something that actually matters in…

I mean, it's not like it would be hard. Just have screenings rather send out screeners and require voters to actually see the films before being eligible to vote each year. The nominations come out in enough time to make sure that happens, and most people will already have seen a bunch of them from regular movie…

How can you call something creative and innovative if it directly rips off designs from cultural groups that have been doing this stuff with virtually no recognition for centuries? It's not creative: it's straight-up privilege and appropriation, and it doesn't matter if you've decided you don't like that term. Native…

For me, it was the year they chose "Shakespeare in Love" for Best Picture and Gwyneth Paltrow as Best Actress that broke my belief that the Academy was about quality.

The part that upset me the most was how offended she was about the I Can't Breathe t-shirts. Sorry, what? A movie made you feel uncomfortable and you're resentful that the cast continues to make you feel uncomfortable about the film's messages? There's just a complete lack of self-awareness in that.

ADULTOSAUR in: THE ACADEMY PERSON

Well, when you live with blinders on, you miss a whole lot.

I have met a few but there is not a lot , however media in UK does talk a lot about cultural appropriation and festivals in UK have banned Native American headdresses. There is no excuse for him being ignorant about it.

OK ,but if I buy one of the dresses from B. Yellowtail, then am I appropriating? Assuming she's interested in staying in business, surely her intentions are to sell as many dresses as possible and not just to other NAs.

are there a lot of First Nations in London?

You are absolutely hitler. Please take your probably well dressed self back to your probably aesthetically tasteful lodgings. You monster.

Have you thought about how you might buy the items that you like directly from individuals representing the cultures that you admire? There is a line between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange, and that line is that cultural exchange is given willingly.

So, if you like traditional Native American beadwork,…

i want a banana

I don't see any of my culture in this. It seems like the idea of Native culture without any idea of what it means. Boring and meaningless.

This tiny SF cat of mine always seems to be cold. And also where the warmest place is in the house at any given time.

And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist? Yes, most members are white males, but they are not the cast of Deliverance — they had to get into the Academy to begin with, so they're not cretinous, snaggletoothed hillbillies.

"When a movie about black people is good, members vote for it. But if the movie isn't that good, am I supposed to vote for it just because it has black people in it?"