Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Offensive Halloween Costumes Perpetuate Harmful Stereotypes for Minority Groups

Offensive Halloween Costumes Perpetuate Harmful Stereotypes for Minority Groups

Becca Wu, In-Depth Editor October 22, 2021

Cady Heron, protagonist of the iconic 2004 movie “Mean Girls,” is wrong about this one: “In girl world, Halloween is the one time of year a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girl can say anything about it.” Dressing up as a “sexy Native American,” for example, is the intersection...

Cultural appropriation of costumes calls for more awareness, sensitivity

Cultural appropriation of costumes calls for more awareness, sensitivity

lizakolbasov October 13, 2017

Written by Liza Kolbasov Halloween is coming up. All over, party stores are popping up, stocked with the usual costumes: black cats, witches, ghosts, skeletons and... terrorists? Native Americans? Although Halloween was initially a religious holiday meant for remembering the dead, it has since evolved...

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