{"id":1756,"date":"2009-10-31T13:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2009-10-31T13:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T18:59:53","slug":"wishing-everyone-a-happy-safe-and-feminist-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/10\/31\/wishing-everyone-a-happy-safe-and-feminist-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing Everyone a Happy, Safe and Feminist Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always a treat to get quoted in a mainstream newspaper article that takes a critical look at U.S. norms and values. Fellow GWP<\/em> editor, Shira Tarrant<\/a>, and I were recently interviewed about trends in female Halloween costumes:<\/p>\n

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Halloween costumes sexy instead of scary \u00c2\u00bb Ventura County Star<\/a><\/div>\n

Talking with this reporter reminded me of a campaign launched on my university’s campus a few years ago by the student club Feminism Is<\/em><\/a>. They created posters with the slogan “We’re not a trick or a treat!” to raise awareness at California Lutheran University<\/a> about the importance of the messages being sent by the hyper-sexual costumes that had become popular among U.S. female college students. With too many Americans still unclear about the relevance of sexism in our daily lives, it’s vital that we mentor and teens\/young adults who create feminist events<\/a> and collaborate with reporters who are willing to ask questions like — Is dressing up “like a slut” for Halloween “harmless fun” or “demeaning”?\u00c2\u00a0 Kudos to writer Rhiannon Potkey<\/a> and other journalists who are fighting the good fight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always a treat to get quoted in a mainstream newspaper article that takes a critical look at U.S. norms and values. Fellow GWP editor, Shira Tarrant, and I were recently interviewed about trends in female Halloween costumes: Halloween costumes sexy instead of scary \u00c2\u00bb Ventura County Star Talking with this reporter reminded me of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4124,43,21275,2109,245,12644,5007,1528,176,157,3602,1255,100],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academe","tag-college","tag-costume","tag-fashion","tag-feminism","tag-halloween","tag-pop-culture","tag-sexism","tag-sexuality","tag-students","tag-third-wave","tag-university","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}