Counter-celebration

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.^[1][2]

Counter-celebrations

• Australia Day: Day of Mourning and Invasion Day or Survival Day
• 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

References

1. Allen, Chadwick (2012-10-01). Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies. University of Minnesota Press. doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816678181.003.0002. ISBN 978-0-8166-7818-1.
2. Simon, Roger I. (2005), Simon, Roger I. (ed.), "The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary", The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 14–31, doi:10.1007/978-1-137-11524-9_2, ISBN 978-1-137-11524-9, retrieved 2023-05-13