It’s that time of year again!  Enjoy our collection of Halloween posts from years past or visit our Halloween-themed Pinterest page.

Just For Fun

• Sociologist Joel Best wishes you a happy and safe Halloween!
• A Hallowmeme costume: Women laughing with salad
• Fun and fear: The great equalizer
• Breast cancer-themed sexy leopard-ish costume ’cause why?

History

• Why do witches ride brooms?
• A brief history of Halloween
• The fright of marrying an ugly man

Politics and Culture

• Poisoned Halloween candy and the social construction of social problems
• Legal firm’s Halloween party mocks home foreclosures
• Lynching Palin
• Obama mask marketed as a “terrorist” costume
• Marking sex offenders
• Capitalism, candy, and Halloween

Race and Ethnicity

• Racist Halloween costumes for your dog
• Othering of undocumented immigrants with an “alien” costume
• A collection of racist Halloween costumes
• Asian hair for Halloween
• Appropriating Dia De Los Muertos at Halloween
• Raising consciousness about racist Halloween costumes
• “Indian” and “Ninja” as official costume categories
• Anne Skank: Trivializing and sexualizing the Holocaust for Halloween

Sexual Orientation

• Heteronormativity in couples Halloween costumes

Gender

• “Anna Rexia” Halloween costume
• What do sexy Halloween costumes for men look like?
• Halloween and the trivializing of women in men’s occupations
• Women dressing up like girls dressing up like women
• Even our skeletons have sex
• A Halloween gender binary
• When sexy overtakes all reason: sexy what!? (2014), sexy what!? (2012), sexy what!? (2010)
• Also in sexy costumes for women and girls: sexy femininity and gender inequality, sexy scholar, Harem girl, and the sexy body bag costume
• Compare to this vintage Halloween-inspired ad that urges women to be bewitching instead of half-naked

Gender and Kids

• How sexy stole “naughty”
• Halloween costumes: then and now (yes, they’re sexier)
• Tiny the Pterodactyl and the gender ideology of Halloween
• Girls: mean or queen
• Gender and kids costumes
• Dress up your little girl in a “little black dress”
• Comparing boy and girl “toddler” Cookie Monster costumes

The intersection of Race, Class, and Gender

• Halloween hall of sha me: the fat lap dancer costume
• Sexy “Indian” costumes
• An overview of raced, gendered, and heteronormative costumes

And, for no conceivable reason…

• Max Weber Jack o’Lantern (I carved it myself)
• Boo! The feminists are coming!