Counter-celebration
Alternative to a holiday or celebration
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A counter-celebration or counter-observance or alternative commemoration can be a form of protest of a holiday's commemoration by challenging its dominant narrative with an alternative event, often representing a social cause such as indigenous rights, and involving symbolic subversion in the style of culture jamming.[1][2]
Counter-celebrations
- Australia Day: Day of Mourning and Invasion Day or Survival Day
- Christmas: Festivus
- Columbus Day: Indigenous Peoples' Day
- Thanksgiving: National Day of Mourning and Unthanksgiving Day
- International Workers' Day: Loyalty Day
- Yom Ha'atzmaut: Nakba Day
- Victory over Japan Day: Shūsen-kinenbi
- Vietnamese Reunification Day: Black April
