Today's commercial festivities—with green attire, shamrocks, and leprechaun imagery—raise valid questions about #CulturalAppropriation and #Commodification.
The celebration has been recontextualised outside of Ireland, transformed from a religious observance to a secular party.
Just don’t buy #Hoka shoes, okay?
The use of #TeReoMāori like this is #CulturalAppropriation.
“HOKA shoes uses a Māori name. Why don’t they say so?”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/544492/hoka-shoes-uses-a-maori-name-why-don-t-they-say-so
wrote a page about witchcraft for my website and it became a short essay type of a deal, mostly about white settler paganism.
https://catnurse.neocities.org/foray/witchcraft.html #witchcraft #ethics #culturalAppropriation #oldweb #neocities
#WritingResourceWednesday is here again! Listen to the Writing Excuses podcast episode on Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, and their effects on writing and writing inclusive fiction with authors Steven Barnes, @ktempestbradford, and Shveta Thakrar along with agent DongWon Song.
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https://writingtheother.com/writing-the-other-on-writing-excuses-colonialism/
In honor of Black History Month…
“Woke” is an appropriated term that has become a colloquialism loosely meaning “having a moral compass” in the face of systemic oppression. Its original usage was “stay woke,” unintentionally coined by blues musician Lead Belly.
In a 1938 he was recording his song “Scottsboro Boys,” ending it with spoken word about the song’s meaning.
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The Russian brand Yaka's alleged appropriation of Kyrgyz cultural symbols has sparked outrage over heritage protection and intellectual property rights https://timesca.com/cultural-appropriation-how-the-yaka-brand-sparked-outrage-in-kyrgyzstan/ #CulturalHeritage #IntellectualProperty #KyrgyzCulture #CulturalAppropriation #Yaka #Kyrgyzstan #FashionEthics
@kyesaidit
Kylie Jenner rebranding as a white woman. It’s like they all follow the same strategy.
#blackwomen #whitewomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #whitepople #culturalappropriation #sellout #blackmastodon
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Registration is now open for the international conference ‘Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’, which will take place at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum (Figueira da Foz) between 12 and 14 March.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/decolonizing-museums-colonial-collections/
Am I the only one who feels deeply, intensely, personally offended by the #culturalappropriation by #FelonMusk of the anti-establishment/anti-authoritarian word #grok for his pisspoor AI? #FederatedUp #GetFedUpAlready
@theregister Maybe we should discuss #culturalappropriation ? #MetaPlatforms #copyright #copyrightinfringement #threads
Quoting Scandar Copti on cultural appropriation and filmmaking beyond Israeli constraints: "Israelis live in a bubble and are unaware of the reality on the ground"
Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti discusses the cultural appropriation he experienced representing Israel with his film "Ajami," which led to his move abroad and the creation of his latest film, "Happy Holidays," a Palestinian production filmed in Haifa. He emphasizes his connection to his cultural and historical roots, the limitations he felt working under Israeli funding, and his desire to create films that explore universal human experiences and encourage critical thought, rather than being confined by political narratives.
Referring back to Israeli cinema, from which he distanced himself following the Oscars incident with then-Culture Minister Limor Livnat, considered liberal compared to the current government, Scandar Copti states,
[...] "I think Israelis live in a bubble and are unaware of the reality on the ground. They only absorb the narrative they are fed, without questioning it. They don't try to understand who these Palestinians are who have lived in Jaffa for years. Where did they come from? Did they come from Europe or North Africa like most of the Israeli public, or are they an indigenous population? The story of 'Ajami' shattered that bubble. I think Israeli cinema should strive for more introspection. There are some documentary filmmakers who do this wonderfully, but when it comes to narrative cinema, it returns to the bubble, and people deal with personal matters disconnected from issues they should be critical about. This requires courage, and I would be happy to see more courage. There are some such creators, like Eran Kolirin for example, but I don't want to sound naive. There is a lot of work ahead of us, and we need more brave people."
Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/entertainment/article/bycmmbwiyg
Binding / Blinding
Scandar Copti is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Associate Arts Professor of Film at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is known for his work with non-actors, and his film "Ajami" received a Camera d'Or Special Mention at Cannes and an Oscar nomination. His film "Happy Holidays" premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay.
In the interview for FRED (attached video clip) he expresses the difficult duality of premiering his film "Happy Holidays" at the Venice Film Festival while grappling with the "heavy cloud" and "grief" caused by the ongoing situation back home in Palestine and Israel. He mentions the challenges of finding the right words to describe his feelings during this time. Later in the interview, while discussing the themes of his film, he touches upon the indoctrination and moral choices within Israeli society that contribute to the "militarization of society" and the "sustaining and maintaining" of the occupation.
[...] I started looking at into it and I understood that it's about moral choices and how our morality is designed it's true we say you know morality binds us as a group, but it blinds us, it blinds us to the option that there could be other forms of moral choices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BUFhFccqWM
@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#PalestinianFilm
#CulturalAppropriation
#ScandarCopti
#HappyHolidaysMovie
#OatmealQuotes
#WritingResourceWednesday is here again! Listen to the Writing Excuses podcast episode on Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, and their effects on writing and writing inclusive fiction with authors Steven Barnes, @ktempestbradford, and Shveta Thakrar along with agent DongWon Song.
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https://writingtheother.com/writing-the-other-on-writing-excuses-colonialism/
On a recent episode of "Dragon's Den," the Canadian equivalent of "Shark Tank," actor and investor Simu Liu called out a Quebec bubble tea brand for cultural appropriation. Now, he's asking fans to turn down the temperature. In a TikTok posted on Sunday, he reiterated his views, pointing out the difference between paying homage and being exploitative, but highlighted that the backlash had been too extreme. “On the flip side, I’ve been made aware that the business owners have received a lot of death threats and harassment and otherwise just kind of bullying and dogpiling, and I just want to say that, full stop, it’s never okay to make threats," he said. Here's more from @ew.
https://flip.it/eu5JUE
IT'S $50 in U.S. MONEY TO MAKE, YET SOLD... FOR.... AROUND $2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaZaIXKA5g
#LuxuryBrandsAreBULLSHIT!!!! #StatusIsBULLSHIT #SAVEYOURMONEY
#consumerknowledge #greenwashing #culturalappropriation #workerexploitation #garmentworkers #environment #capitalism #greed
Auch weiße Menschen: Bitte verkleidet euch an Halloween nicht als Hexen. Das ist #Culturalappropriation, Wicca und Paganismus sind ernsthafte Religionen.
The “SS Butterfly” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it, to English-only speakers (whiteys), does it? #CulturalAppropriation
https://chaos.social/@matzekult/113194304305746735
#WritingResourceWednesday is here again! Listen to the Writing Excuses podcast episode on Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, and their effects on writing and writing inclusive fiction with authors Steven Barnes, @ktempestbradford, and Shveta Thakrar along with agent DongWon Song.
Listen here
https://writingtheother.com/writing-the-other-on-writing-excuses-colonialism/
Що таке культурна апропріація? Це коли русня записує в свої українців, які стали відомими у всьому світі.
Ілля Юхимович Рєпін народився в Чугуєві Харківської області, намалював десятки картин, що відображають українські будні та історію, найвідоміша є звісно ось ця – Запорожці
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