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'Killers of the Flower Moon' Star Lily Gladstone Uses She/They Pronouns

The actress connects her pronoun use to her Indigenous heritage and advocates for non-gendered awards categories.

  • Lily Gladstone, star of 'Killers of the Flower Moon', uses she/they pronouns as a way of 'decolonizing gender' and staying connected to her Indigenous heritage.
  • Gladstone, who has Blackfeet and Nimiipuu heritage, was raised on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana where most indigenous languages don’t have gendered pronouns.
  • The actress revealed that in her community, a person's gender is suggested by their name, which is not binary.
  • Gladstone expressed her support for the recent trend in entertainment industry awards shows moving towards non-gendered categories.
  • She also shared her personal experience of feeling 'a little bit different' when in a group of women and feeling more feminine when around men.
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