What Do Indigenous Kids Really Think of Indigenous Portrayals in Movies?

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Originally appeared in The Toronto Film Scene in 2015; some language has been updated to be correct in 2023 with the exception of direct quotations.

One thing our society is very often guilty of is ignoring the voices of the people whose opinions should matter most. We seem to think that if our intentions were good, it doesn’t matter if people are offended because we didn’t mean for it to happen.

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Movies That Are Better than the Books

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People who claim that the book is always better than the movie either haven’t seen enough movies or haven’t read enough — usually both. This idea that books are inherently a higher art form than film (or television) is such classist bullshit that I can’t say much more than that about it lest this turn into a furious rant about the deeply ingrained classism in art.

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