Cultural Appropriation

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Earlier this week, people called out the clothing and costumes website Yandy for its “Sexy Handmaid’s Tale Halloween costume. Following the backlash the company removed the costume from its site and issued an apology, but the work isn’t done yet. One person pointed out that Yandy is still selling lots of appropriative costumes that have yet to be targeted by widespread social media outrage.

“Now that you’ve gotten the costume based on a fictional dystopia removed, can ya’ll muster up enough backlash to do something about the site’s entire ‘Indian Costumes’ section?” a Twitter user named Lilya wrote on Friday, September 21. Her post included screenshots from Yandy’s website, showing more than 30 “Indian Costumes” that include various stereotypes and appropriations of traditional Native American clothing and accessories. (It’s not the only point of contention on the site. “I’m also good if they dropped this garbage as well,” one commenter wrote alongside a screenshot of Yandy’s equally offensive Mexican costumes.)