Things to think through before you go out in your Halloween costume

Tips for avoiding cultural appropriation this Halloween.

Dog CTA costume
Dog CTA costume

Things to think through before you go out in your Halloween costume

Tips for avoiding cultural appropriation this Halloween.

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Halloween costumes are all fun and games, but they can cross a line, without you necessarily realizing it. Reset checks in with a local costume enthusiast and a professor to figure out how to identify that line.

GUESTS: Karlyn Ruth Meyer, pop culture writer, Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland board president

Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law