http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/ "mistress of all worlds, master of none" -Anita Nair Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3933 Katie Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:42:31 +0000 http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3933 Again, you are brilliant! Lost a white friend recently who told me I was being oversensitive by criticizing a friend's geisha Halloween costume. I am sick of being the "not fun" one for noticing what seems obvious to me - that holidays like this are a kind of sanctioned Racism/Sexism/Colonialism/Etc. Amnesty Day, where white American (or whitewashed America) can reassure itself of the stereotypes that rattle around in its subconscious mind, to be retrieved at will. Again, you are brilliant! Lost a white friend recently who told me I was being oversensitive by criticizing a friend’s geisha Halloween costume. I am sick of being the “not fun” one for noticing what seems obvious to me - that holidays like this are a kind of sanctioned Racism/Sexism/Colonialism/Etc. Amnesty Day, where white American (or whitewashed America) can reassure itself of the stereotypes that rattle around in its subconscious mind, to be retrieved at will.

]]> http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3845 Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » Continuing the cultural appropriation discussion Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:38:05 +0000 http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3845 [...] first comes from one brown woman of woman of (an)other color blog: Halloween: Day of Dead, Day of Red. The second costume I want to talk about is one that I seem to have seen a lot on websites and over [...] [...] first comes from one brown woman of woman of (an)other color blog: Halloween: Day of Dead, Day of Red. The second costume I want to talk about is one that I seem to have seen a lot on websites and over [...]

]]> http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3759 sarah Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:18:05 +0000 http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3759 This is GREAT. I should never have doubted. This is GREAT. I should never have doubted.

]]> http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3742 Wol Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:56:21 +0000 http://onebrownwoman.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/halloween-day-of-dead-day-of-red/#comment-3742 Thank you for this excellent and though-provoking post, which I am going to share with several of my more clueless colleagues who don't get why Disney costumes, etc., are problematic. I also appreciate the link to the Day of Red, something else I will share. Thank you for this excellent and though-provoking post, which I am going to share with several of my more clueless colleagues who don’t get why Disney costumes, etc., are problematic. I also appreciate the link to the Day of Red, something else I will share.

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