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Feminist Halloween Guide

A Feminist Guide to dressing up or down for Halloween. Anyone who has ever wandered into the Women’s Center at UW Oshkosh knows that we are a bit costume obsessed here. We love our Rosie the Reader program because it allows us to provide a program specifically tailored to those with children on campus and in the community. Not so secretly, we also love it because it means we get to dress up as suffragists and Rosie the Riveter, aka Rosie the Reader. Costumes provide us with an opportunity to play – for adults and children alike. We can imagine ourselves as strong, independent, superheroes. We can pay homage to the role models we’ve had in our life. We can dress up as our mother, our favorite actress, the first woman to go into space…. We can be anything we want to be. Well, we can be anything we want in real life too – but we can be it even quicker with a costume! This October, we are introducing our Women’s Center guide to a feminist Halloween costume. Enjoy!

A Male Feminist's Response to Halloween

Feminist Costume Ideas

Adult Individual Costumes

Gloria Steinem	Tweety Bird
Lisa Simpson	Civil Rights Activist
Gordon Ramsey	Phyllis Schlafly
Nancy Drew	Dalai Lama
John Stuart Mill	Rosie the Riveter
Angela Davis	Binders Full of Women
Alan Alda	Fredrick Gouglas
Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo)	Katniss Everdeen
Wonder Woman	Ms. Piggy (Debateable)
Joss Whedon	Parker Pillsbury
Rue (The Hunger Games)	Barack Obama
Ida B. Wells-Barnett	Margret Cho
Oprah Winfrey	Freda Kahlo
Henry Brewster Stanton	Michel Foucault (Debateable)
Roller Derby Girl (Debateable)	Amelia Earhart
Suffragist	BMO (Adventure Time)

Children's Individual Costumes

Tweety Bird	Katniss Everdeen
Roller Derby Girl (Debateable)	Suffragist
Civil Rights Activist	Hermoine Granger
Lisa Simpson	Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo)
Wonder Woman	Rue (The Hunger Games)
Amelia Earhart	Rosie the Riveter
Nancy Drew	Your Very Own Feminist Superhero
BMO (Adventure Time)	Dalai Lama
Barack Obama	Mr. Rogers

Group Costume Ideas

Pussy Riot	The Supremes
Girls with Slingshots	Powerpuff Girls
Guerilla Girls	Jem and the Holograms
Roller Derby Team	The Golden Girls

Costume Resources and Articles

Jezebel

Eight Alternatives to the "Sexy" Halloween Costume

http://jezebel.com/5851307/eight-alternatives-to-the-sexy-halloween-costume

The Guardian

Dressing up for Halloween: A Feminist Guide

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/26/halloween-women-feminist-costumes

College Feminists Connect

Feminist Halloween Costumes

http://www.collegefeministsconnect.org/2012/10/feminist-halloween-costumes.html

Girls Leadership Institute

From Mean Girls to Frida Kahlo: A Feminist Discourse on Halloween

http://www.girlsleadershipinstitute.org/blog/mean-girls-frida-kahlo-feminist-discourse-halloween

The Tired Feminist

The Tired Feminist Awesomely Strong Women Halloween Costume List

http://tiredfeminist.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-tired-feminist-awesomely-strong-women-halloween-costume-list/

Bust Magazine

10 Awesome Feminist Halloween Costume Ideas

http://www.bust.com/10-awesome-feminist-halloween-costume-ideas.html

Ms. Magazine

How to Have a Feminist Halloween

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/23/how-to-have-a-feminist-halloween/

The Sin City Siren

Feminist Halloween: Avoiding "Sexy" Social Branding

http://sincitysiren.com/2012/10/23/feminist-halloween-avoiding-sexy-social-branding/

Take Back Halloween!

A Costume Guide for Women with Imagination

http://takebackhalloween.org/category/costumes/

Now

Feminist Halloween Costumes 2010

http://www.now.org/news/blogs/index.php/sayit/2010/10/29/feminist-halloween-costumes-2010

The New York Times

Good Girls Go Bad, For a Day

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/fashion/19costume.html?pagewanted=all

Male Ally Resources

Bitch Magazine

Trick or Treat or STOP IT WITH THE OFFENSIVE COSTUMES ALREADY: What not to be for Halloween

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/halloween-costumes-racist-sexist-homophobic-feminist-alternatives-dressing-up-sexy-holiday

Informal Feminism

Objectification Through Halloween Costumes
http://informalfeminism.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/objectification-through-halloween-costumes/

Children's Resources

Everyday Feminism

5 Ways to Avoid Sexism in your Kid's Halloween Costume

http://everydayfeminism.com/2012/10/avoid-sexist-halloween-costume/

The Stay at Home Feminist Mom

Happy Halloween

http://bettyfokker.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/happy-halloween-2/

The Tired Feminist

TMF: Halloween Costumes

Part 1

http://tiredfeminist.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/tmf-halloween-costumes-part-1/

Part 2

http://tiredfeminist.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/tmf-halloween-cos

The Blaze

"Sexualizing Little Girls:" "Naughty Leaopard" Costume for Toddlers Sparks Major Debatetumes-part-2/

Inappropriate Costume Ideas

Late Enough

Can a Culture be a Costume

http://www.lateenough.com/2011/10/can-a-culture-be-a-halloween-costume/

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