Lily Gladstone uses she/they pronouns and has rather educational reasons for it.

The Killers of the Flower Moon star revealed Sunday in an interview with People that her Indigenous heritage she has Blackfeet and Nez Perce ancestry taught her to rethink pronouns at an early age.

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 the outlet. It happens to a lot of kids, I think, especially Native boys getting teased for it.

So I remember back then being like, everybody should just be they, she said.

Gladstone added that most Indigenous languages use only they pronouns and that the gender of Blackfeet members is implied in their name. She also noted that even this isnt binary, however, as Gladstones grandfather was named Iron Woman despite his gender.

I wouldnt say that he was nonbinary in gender, but he was given a womans name because he kind of carried himself, I guess, the way that women who have that name do, Gladstone said.

And there were lots of women historically and still now who are given mens names, she continued. They fulfill more of a mans role in society as far as being provider, warrior, those sort of things. So, yeah, my pronoun use is partly a way of decolonizing gender for myself.