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oct.2014
FF BAM/PFASC
BAM/PFA STUDENT COMMITTEE VOLUME III, ISSUE II HALLOWEEN EDITION
Vol. II / Issue 07
INALLY
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You had anything from drag queens bedazzled from head to toe, to mechanically enhanced costumes like LED skeletons. Leave it to LA to go out running even in broken red heels. Although all of that was grand, being in Berkeley causes me to reconsider my rather problematic conceptions of costumes wear.
Yet, as I thought of this holiday I had to concede how different this year really is. Granted, the opportunity for this holiday to produce another story for the century is still looming around the corner, but there is also something else in the air that I cannot entirely squelch. Last year, I was a Grecian and completely submerged in two-dollar-gold-glitter eye shadow, which, I feel added another dimension to my already DIY costume. I had spent last year parading amongst the large masses of extravagant costumes in West Hollywood.
Hallow readers! If you picked up on my corny joke then you can presume that it is that time of the year again: Halloween! As I began writing, I questioned how I would write this segment. Would it begin by recanting buried tales of a boy who wore his lion costume to school on the wrong day? Would it begin by rehashing the misery of overloading on apple-flavored taffy? Or how, to this day, he still cringes at anything artificially flavored with apple? I suppose I could sacrifice these stories and offer a good laugh at my expense.
check the upcoming issue of FINALLY for next panel
Editorial m
a comic by UCB graduate and former student committee member bernadette McVerry
BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
black hole truckstop
STUDENT COMMITTEE RAG
introducing From a Person Who Dressed Up as a Lion for Three Years, Alé
As a person who comes from a student committee that highly promotes art, I would like to take this time to urge you to be creative. Be a stapler! Be an art installation! Be magical! Be a hyper ventilating glitter bag (whatever that is)! Skies the limit! Halloween can still exist in all its glory with wonderful escapades, trashy parties, incognito behavior, and endless midnight-tales. But first: Read this ‘zine and think of BAM/ PFA fondly, as it too will be taking on a new “costume” (if you will) in the spring. Enjoy!
This year has really pressed me to reconsider some trends of appropriating certain cultures. In other words, to not dress up in a culture that is not my own, or anything that is fundamentally sexist, racist, and all the other “-isms” under the sun.