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.