May 2012
24 posts
"Good Lifestyle" article
Good Lifestyle recently came out with an article titled “Ethical Style: Should You Really Wear that ‘Ethnic’ Print?”
Among other trends, they highlight the URBN Navajo Panties!
n the fashion industry, appropriating ethnic cultures to stock mainstream closets has long beenen vogue. To sell new clothes, fashion has wrapped turbans around Edwardian heads, clasped Egyptian...
Amazing
WatchThis video of young white people doing “Indian” chants on the F train in NYC is fucked up. Original clip and article here.
White Babies in Headdresses
If you can’t read the copy, it begins: “You can almost hear the drum beats!” It continues: “All costumes included braided headbands…sizes 2/4 and 4/6 also include a feather.”
Johnny Depp as Tonto
Johnny Depp, dreamboat extraordinaire and fantastic actor, is going to play Tonto in the Lone Ranger - and he has been sparking substantial controversy in how he is choosing to portray Tonto.
I have to apologize to the many people who have written requesting a post about this over the past weeks. I’ve been in finals and been lazy but also I have a deep and undying devotion to Johnny Depp...
Facebook Activism?
This was probably taken down because of the drug paraphernalia but a girl can dream…
WatchNative Appropriations recently posted about “Tracing the Urban Outfitters Case and the role of Native social media” including an awesome visual - a Prezi presentation that shows how the URBN case played out. Seriously awesome!
Here’s the Prezi
Remembering Maurice Sendak for the Good and the...
Maurice Sendak died today, at the age of 83. He was a pioneer (words chosen intentionally) in many ways, and changed children’s literature forever. I, for one, cannot imagine my childhood without him. While “Where the Wild Things Are” might be his most famous, “Mickey in the Night Kitchen” was my family’s favorite and also one of his most notorious (it was...
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