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this-is-not-native: “Tell you what. You want to be a Native for Halloween? Go as one specific Native. Go as me. Put on your favorite pajamas, leave a bowl of candy on the stoop and invite your best friend over to watch horror movies with the lights off. Don’t go to any parties. Don’t go out for any reason. Because if you want to avoid seeing hurtful, stereotypical, racist costumes, if you want to avoid being assaulted by images of white people in cheap parodies of your culture’s sacred religious garb, that’s what you have to do. Because the prospect of running into some thoughtless asshole in a headdress is so viscerally upsetting that you don’t take part in Halloween at all. There’s your costume” -Shyly

this-is-not-native:

“Tell you what. You want to be a Native for Halloween? Go as one specific Native. Go as me. Put on your favorite pajamas, leave a bowl of candy on the stoop and invite your best friend over to watch horror movies with the lights off. Don’t go to any parties. Don’t go out for any reason. Because if you want to avoid seeing hurtful, stereotypical, racist costumes, if you want to avoid being assaulted by images of white people in cheap parodies of your culture’s sacred religious garb, that’s what you have to do. Because the prospect of running into some thoughtless asshole in a headdress is so viscerally upsetting that you don’t take part in Halloween at all. There’s your costume” -Shyly

(Source: thelmatwofist, via arrogantblathering)

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