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Portrait de Indigenous Reproductive Justice Jessica

Indigenous Feminism and Cultural Appropriation

Last year, a friend of mine told me that actress Juliette Lewis started up a band and that their sound was seriously a rockin’.

I was like “Really? Cool!” since I’d always appreciated the versatility Lewis demonstrated in her acting craft with movies like “The Other Sister,” “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” or even “Old School.”

Off to Google I went searching for her website, when I came up with this image:

 

Oh no, not again.

Another appropriator.

Indigenous feminism :)

To be honest, I truly do not feel that feminism is something a person can simply 'learn'.  Personally, I grew up knowing that as a person, I have rights ,yes it was somthing that was nurtured however it was also something I always felt in the center of my being . It was truth; it just did not have a name, label or specific perception.
Portrait de Indigenous Reproductive Justice Jessica

Yes, I am now an Indigenous feminist

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Kanionke:haka. Onkwehonwe. Mohawk. Indigenous. Feminist.

For some, it might seem that all these words don't fit together. For me, I can't see myself without all of them.

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