What might be possible if all women, and their allies of other genders, stood together? What would violent, penetrative, power-mad men do then? In the first act of David Gordon Green’s Halloween, Allyson (Andi Matichak)—granddaughter of John Carpenter’s original film’s Final Girl, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis)—asks why Laurie can’t just move past her trauma. […]
In the age of Instagram, Halloween is a competitive sport, and you get points based on how much of your own blood, sweat, and spilled pumpkin spice latte goes into your kids’ costumes. “Do you decorate for Halloween?” a friend asked recently. “You seem like the kind of person who would really go all out.” […]
We seem to reach Peak Asshole around Halloween. It’s almost that time again. That time of year where people inevitably make bad decisions in the name of trying to be funny. OK, fine, that happens everyday on the Internet. In real life though, we seem to reach Peak Asshole around Halloween. If you need a […]
If we didn’t already judge women for how they dressed every day of the year, maybe Halloween wouldn’t feel like such a pressure cooker for the intersection of shame and exhibitionism. Oh the Halloween lists I could write! 17 Intersectional Non-Appropriating Feminist Costumes 10 Sex-Positive But Not Slutty* But Still Cute* But Not Trying-to-Hard* Costumes (*What […]
We have managed to kill a day intended to celebrate death. It’s time to admit it, America: We have a Halloween problem. I’ve just come home from a year in England where Halloween isn’t really much of a thing. In the past decade or so, dressing up and going to parties has become more popular […]
Sometimes what makes a costume funny is the fact that a white individual is wearing another ethnicity or race. And let me tell you, that is straight racist. Halloween is a holiday about glorifying all things spooky and scary, a day to dress up in a costume for the sake of having fun. Unfortunately, sometimes […]
