I’m tired of hearing that these images aren’t harmful. I’d rather see how much they’re missed when they’re gone than continue to listen to the insistence that the image of Pocahontas at the end of a gun barrel is wholesome while, every day, more and more indigenous women die while we are told that this is not a phenomenon, not a problem, nothing more than crime. Seattle writer Elissa Washuta takes on harmful pop cultural images of violence against indigenous women, from Pocahontas to Twilight.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:00:01 +0000