[sudo-discuss] Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?

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Cultural appropriation/colonization should absolutely not be welcome at the
omni.

That being said, there shouldn't be a problem hosting a halloween party,
and we can all be accountable to eachother and to our community while we're
at it. I highly recommend this set of resources compiled by a good friend
of mine in celebrating Halloween in a conscientious manner:

http://www.conspireforchange.org/?p=2033

A few language tweaks, and maybe even a highlighting of these ideas on your
literature and I imagine you'd be good to go!

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Hep Svadja <hepkitten at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, i understand that people want to don the costuming of DDLM. That is
> exactly part of the problem. Groups of privileged parties co-opting what is
> a sacred holiday not of their own culture. In that google image search you
> have a vast variety of white women dressing up to be "sexy" or spookyglam
> without any real ties to the culture, and very few images of hispanic
> people celebrating the holiday in the same costumes. This has been an
> on-going problem with non-cultural DDLM celebrations for decades now. It
> would be aggravating to see sudoroom add to that kind of cultural
> colonization by privileged groups.
>
> -hep
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Ben Burke <benjaminburke at me.com> wrote:
>
>> I think maybe people just want to dress up like this:
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=dia+de+los+muertos&tbm=isch
>>
>> ...which can totally be part of a Halloween party instead.
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Hep Svadja <hepkitten at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hi guys:
>>
>> a little bothered by the cultural appropriation of this event. as a Bay
>> Area Hispanic I find it quite strange when groups of mostly white people
>> with no ties to the actual culture of ddlm host events not in the actual
>> spirit of this extremely reverent Hispanic holiday. basically if you don't
>> build an ofrenda on your ancestors' graves every year i find it really
>> problematic to be jumping aboard this holiday as you are clearly not of
>> this culture. using it as an excuse for a dance party is even more
>> questionable as is encouraging people with no understanding of this
>> cultural holiday to dress up, which i understand is for the best of reasons
>> but also pretty exploitative of a culture you don't belong to.  what is
>> wrong with just making this a Halloween party and not contributing to the
>> ongoing exploitation of local Hispanic communities of color?
>>
>> -hep
>>
>> * edited this to be less of a jerk.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:54 PM, yar <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Lesley Bell <zvezdalune at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello!
>>> >
>>> > The Omni needs funds.  Dia de los Muertos is a thing. We would like to
>>> > introduce new people to the space and expand our community.
>>> >
>>> > I have attached a flyer for a possible event, a funky
>>> transhumanist/Dia de
>>> > los Muertos themed costume ball.  Should this happen? Is there a reason
>>> > anyone would like to block?
>>> >
>>> > Also, steampunk zombies! Mechanical corpses! Post-singularity glittery
>>> > things covered in LEDs! Ordinary awesome humans!
>>>
>>> Looks fun! Right now the way to book events is:
>>>
>>> 1) check the calendar for conflicts:
>>> https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Calendar
>>>
>>> 2) submit this form: bit.ly/omniballroom
>>>
>>> Full explanation and future changes to the process will go here:
>>> https://omnicommons.org/wiki/How_to_book_events
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