‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ star Lily Gladstone uses she/they pronouns as a way of ‘decolonizing gender’
nypost.comKillers of the Flower Moon” actress Lily Gladstone has always felt comfortable using the she/they pronouns in an effort to “decolonize gender.” “I remember being 9 years old and just being a little disheartened, seeing how often a lot of my boy cousins were misgendered because they wore their hair long,” Gladstone, 37, told People on Sunday. “It happens to a lot of kids, I think, especially Native boys leaving a community where long hair is celebrated [and then] just kind of getting teased for it.” “So I remember back then being like, everybody should just be they,” the actress continued.
Gladstone, who has a heritage stemming from both Nimiipuu and Blackfeet tribes, was raised on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana for a decade and revealed that most indigenous languages don’t have gendered pronouns.
Instead, the person’s gender is suggested by their name. “So Blackfeet, we don’t have gendered pronouns, but our gender is implied in our name.
But even that’s not binary,” Gladstone said, noting her grandfather’s name actually meant “Iron Woman.”“He had a name that had a woman’s name in it.
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