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Feminist Halloween, Day 22: Take Back Halloween 2015

Posted in Feminist Halloween, tagged , , on 2015/10/22| Leave a Comment »

Every year I do a quick post on Take Back Halloween, a feminist site dedicated to providing costume ideas and designs for girls and women. The costumes, typically of historical figures (“notable women”), goddesses, movie stars, and queens, span different cultures, time periods, sexualities, and shapes. What you won’t find: Sexy Nurse, Sexy Witch, Sexy Pirate. What you will find: LaSiren, Mercy Otis Warren, and Madhubala.

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Feminist Halloween, Day 3: Take Back Halloween

Posted in Geek Culture, Gender, Halloween, Race, tagged , , on 2014/10/03| 4 Comments »

I always do a little blurb on Take Back Halloween, since the site has been around as long as this blog has! The site aims to show readers how to make positive feminist costumes for Halloween.

Bessie Coleman via Taking Back Halloween

Bessie Coleman via Take Back Halloween

The site highlights notable historical and fictional women of all races from all over the world; gives instructions on how to create the outfits–usually through a combination of off-the-rack items and accessories, so even if you can’t sew, you can make the outfits; and also provides history lessons about the characters and historical figures, who fall into four major categories: Glamour Grrls, Goddesses and Legends, Notable Women, and Queens.

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Halloween Gender Reader, October 2013

Posted in Geek Culture, Gender, Halloween, Race, Visual Culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/10/24| 7 Comments »

Halloween! Let’s celebrate my favorite holiday with a (mostly positive) gender reader!

Source: wikimedia commons.

Source: Wikipedia.

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