<div dir="ltr"><div>having gone as a robot made out of sudo room stuff last year, i second the robot halloween party idea and also would consider a dia de los muertos party to be inappropriate. i have family in town and won't be able to help set up the halloween party - apologies.<br><br>also, i've copied sudoer shani here as she has a few performers lined up for a halloween event that matt was planning and wants to figure out how those performers can still play at omni around halloween.<br><br></div>- marina<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:24 PM, yar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yardenack@gmail.com" target="_blank">yardenack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Hep Svadja <<a href="mailto:hepkitten@gmail.com">hepkitten@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Yes, i understand that people want to don the costuming of DDLM. That is<br>
> exactly part of the problem. Groups of privileged parties co-opting what is<br>
> a sacred holiday not of their own culture. In that google image search you<br>
> have a vast variety of white women dressing up to be "sexy" or spookyglam<br>
> without any real ties to the culture, and very few images of hispanic people<br>
> celebrating the holiday in the same costumes. This has been an on-going<br>
> problem with non-cultural DDLM celebrations for decades now. It would be<br>
> aggravating to see sudoroom add to that kind of cultural colonization by<br>
> privileged groups.<br>
<br>
</span>Damn, wish I had taken a closer look at that event description. I<br>
agree with hep, it looks pretty alienating. Let's have a robot-themed<br>
halloween party instead. Beep boop.<br>
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