jgh2: Native Appropriations: “Navajo” Fashion Spread in Seventeen The article discusses the really patronizing use of “Navajo” in a recent Seventeen fashion spread, comparing such flippant appropriation to this rather excellent cover from 1973. Can you IMAGINE the Seventeen magazine of today actually featuring a woman of color - a Native woman, no less - in a non-sexualized, make-up free and seemingly intellectual context on the COVER of their magazine? The woman on the cover isn’t promoting a movie. She isn’t a product of the Disney machine. Her image is used as the COVER of a larger article about Navajo culture - not just the appropriation of a headdress. There are ways we’ve gone forward as a culture. And there are some ways we have SERIOUSLY gone backward.

jgh2:

Native Appropriations: “Navajo” Fashion Spread in Seventeen

The article discusses the really patronizing use of “Navajo” in a recent Seventeen fashion spread, comparing such flippant appropriation to this rather excellent cover from 1973.

Can you IMAGINE the Seventeen magazine of today actually featuring a woman of color - a Native woman, no less - in a non-sexualized, make-up free and seemingly intellectual context on the COVER of their magazine?

The woman on the cover isn’t promoting a movie. She isn’t a product of the Disney machine. Her image is used as the COVER of a larger article about Navajo culture - not just the appropriation of a headdress.

There are ways we’ve gone forward as a culture. And there are some ways we have SERIOUSLY gone backward.

(via golden-notebook)