As a rhetorical device, the spirit animal—the person or thing you appreciate by claiming it as your own—is not new. The deep desire to tell other people who we are by way of the things around ...

The phrase "spirit animal" is a microaggression against Native Americans. Here's why non-Native people should stop using it. The first time Chelsey Luger heard the phrase “spirit animal,” it ...

“The pop culture concept of ‘I am so lazy, my spirit animal is a cat,’ or ‘Justin Bieber is my spirit animal,’ actually has no relation to Native American culture at all,” she says. “But because of ...

Pizza Rat is, per Internet consensus, many lofty things: a spirit animal, “all of us,” a parable of life in New York City. But as the Internet’s latest viral Phenomenon, in the big-P sense ...

Here is a list of animals that you may or may not have known to be your spirit animal of NYC. Pizza rat. Photograph: YouTube. You can't just go home after a night of partying without something to eat.