I’m Native and I wonder about this all the time. The ignorance of these people is astounding. Newt Gingrich has said the country belongs to “classic Americans,” an obvious attempt at cultural appropriation of the term “Native Americans.” IDK who he thinks classic Americans are, given that Natives were here first,…

I commend Jezebel for reporting on Native issues, but once again I ask that you hire a Native American writer. Reproductive rights in NDN country has a long, long history, one which most Native women could tell in the first person. I’m tired of coming to this site and finding our stories being written by non-Natives.

really?

Neocolonialism and colonialism are absolutely enemies of women’s rights. The Native American Nations that existed pre-contact were often matriarchal, or power was shared between genders. White men found this ridiculous and did whatever they could to dismantle it. Anyone who thinks we were in Afghanistan to protect…

bring it. The fury will be like the original Women’s March on steroids. ACB and the GOP better be ready for the political backlash

Thanks so much for this. As a Native American it has always been appalling to me that white feminists are so concerned about women’s rights around the world but then they call the police when our men are cooking us hamburgers in the park. They vote for presidents who jail the fathers of our children, appropriate our…

Me too, fellow Native here. I’d rather read Dostoyevsky.

I’m LOLing at the image of Jamie Spears super-glueing himself to a tanker railroad car prominently marked with the word “GRAVY”

I didn’t actually know that racist fanfic was a thing...

I agree. I have C-PTSD

thanks for making my point in a much more succinct way!

this. I never felt that my heroin use was a net benefit to anyone, which I why I hid it for so long. 

congrats on your sobriety! 

Good for you! Glad you were and are able to do drugs and walk away. My points were (1) I don’t think this guy is in that 70% like you are (people lie to themselves about their level of control) and (2) I don’t think that stating that for most people heroin is nbd really helps his case to legalize, normalize.

Ex-junkie here-19 years sober. I’ll say the same thing here that I said on the NYT review of his book: this guy is most likely a junky and doesn’t know it, and the really sad part is that he’s getting paid to be a junky researcher and book-writer, which means he is going to keep doing drugs until it kills him. I don’t…

I saw the photo of her in Native dress as a halloween costume. She looks like a child in that photo. I find cultural appropriation of my culture painful, but I totally forgive her for her mistake. She was underage, and it takes a very long time to develop the cultural sensitivities that people seem to require these…

Do you have a link to the “mile” of tweets? Because I only saw 6. 

I respectfully disagree. I don’t think being underage is an excuse, but it is an explanation, and I think everyone, especially children, should be allowed to grow and change without it affecting their future career prospects. 

You are confusing a race, Asian, with an ethnicity, Latinx. LatinXs can be anyone from a Latin American country: white, Black, asian (South America has the largest Japanese population outside Japan), indigenous.

You can be white and be Latinx. There are millions, probably tens of millions or more, white Latinx people. Gisele Bundchen is Latinx, because she was born in Brazil, although she is of German descent I believe.