Counter-celebration

{{Short description|Alternative to a holiday or celebration}} {{More references|date=May 2020}} 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.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Allen|first=Chadwick|url=http://minnesota.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5749/minnesota/9780816678181.001.0001/upso-9780816678181|title=Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies|date=2012-10-01|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-7818-1|doi=10.5749/minnesota/9780816678181.003.0002}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Simon |first=Roger I. |title=The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary |date=2005 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11524-9_2 |work=The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics |pages=14–31 |editor-last=Simon |editor-first=Roger I. |access-date=2023-05-13 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-137-11524-9_2 |isbn=978-1-137-11524-9|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==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

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