December 01, 2014
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MALE ACTOR CLAIMS WOMAN RAPED HIM DURING HIS PERFORMANCE ART PIECE
Actor Shia LaBeouf is perhaps best known for his performances in the blockbuster Transformers movies, but he recently claimed he was raped by a female guest during his weird-ass “performance art” event earlier this year. The conceptual “installation,” called #IAMSORRY, involved LaBeouf sitting in a small room wearing a paper bag over his head that read “I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE” and enduring the scrutiny of the voyeuristic art aficionados who passed through his room over the course of a few weird and escalatingly smelly days.
Via an email interview with Dazed Digital, LaBeouf described his performance-art despoiling:
One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs for ten minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me… There were hundreds of people in line when she walked out with dishevelled hair and smudged lipstick. It was no good, not just for me but her man as well. On top of that my girl was in line to see me, because it was Valentine’s Day and I was living in the gallery for the duration of the event “ we were separated for five days, no communication. So it really hurt her as well, as I guess the news of it travelled through the line. When she came in she asked for an explanation, and I couldn”t speak, so we both sat with this unexplained trauma silently. It was painful.
Although false rape accusations are common, we”re sort of hoping this one was true. Is it wrong to feel that way?
INDIAN TRIBE ACCUSED OF NOT BEING RACIALLY EXCLUSIVE IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY
Southeastern Virginia’s noble, flinty, and stubborn Pamunkey Indian tribe is being headed off at the pass by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who are trying to argue that the tribe’s history of excluding blacks from membership should make them ineligible to receive federal recognition and all the perks and casinos that come along with it.
Pamunkey Chief Kevin Brown”yes, we, too, agree that “Kevin Brown” doesn”t sound like an Indian chief’s name”says that throughout history, “Racial admixture was raised repeatedly as a rationale to divest us of our reservation and our Indian status.” He is effectively arguing that race-mixing was a way to destroy the tribe’s cultural integrity and force gradual soft genocide upon it.
Mind you, to receive federal recognition as a tribe, the Pamunkeys have to present evidence that they are genetically distinct and come from a long and mostly uninterrupted bloodline. And the Congressional Black Caucus, those kooky coconuts, are trying to argue that the tribe shouldn”t be granted this status because they kept themselves…genetically distinct. Go figger!
