Episode 123: Why We Disagree About Avatar

The Na’Vi are back — and so are all of our concerns about white savior narratives!

Notes, citations, and etc.

Avatar: The Way of Water is already one of the most successful films of all time.

Here’s the essay that Annalee wrote about Avatar back in 2009.

Civil rights attorney Brett Chapman is one of the indigenous people who’s criticized the film

Here’s a news clip featuring indigenous people urging a boycott of Avatar 2.

We recently watched an amazing indigenous SF movie called Slash/Back, which you can watch in all the PVOD places! Here it is for $4 on Google Play.

In The Way of Water, Sigourney Weaver plays her own 14-year-old daughter, Kiri.