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Tag: capitalist

Digging Into the Problematic History of Wedding Traditions

August 17, 2021
Appleford Estate, wedding

[CW: Mentions of slavery; capitalism] Let’s start by talking about wedding parties. I intentionally avoid using the words “bridesmaids” and “groomsmen” because I don’t like tying gendered words to people…

posted in: Education
tagged with: capitalist, heteronormative, patriarchal, problematic, unsustainable, wedding industrial complex, wedding traditions

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