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tuesday OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by kano in Friday Free Talk Holiday Edition by tuesday

it's emancipation day in Puerto Rico but i didn't know that. i looked it up.

i listened to a podcast once about the ways that anarchism as an ideology doesn't provide for opportunities for holidays. not on a broad sort of cultural way that provides opportunity to folks to fill a communal need for fellowship. we have no great leaders to celebrate, no religious observations. which i think allows holidays to form naturally but in the interim we're left wanting.

it's one thing to say that holidays are what we make them but holidays are rarely that person and individual. I've been thinking on that for a while with no real resolution.

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kano wrote (edited )

it's emancipation day in Puerto Rico

I know nothing about this but sounds kind of ironic to me.

I feel like there are opportunities for holidays based on natural cycles. Like the solstices, various New Year's and maybe stuff like eclipses or regular meteor showers like the perseid. Probably in the end like also various communities might have dates that are important for them. Like for example in my house we could celebrate the anniversary of when we came here or idk.

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tuesday OP wrote

it's when they absolished slavery on the island afaik.

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