Halloween is one of the most popular, semi-significant holidays for people of all ages because of its openness to all genders, races, classes, and sexual orientations. It is a time for everyone to have fun whether it be going door to door asking strangers for tasty treats or drinking so much that you fall off of your feet. But for others it may be a time of difficulty because of the criteria that it demands from the group of people who go out and drink. Long ago are the days when we could get away with wearing a scary or ghoulish outfit and go out with our friends. Now, a certain expectation of body exposure is means of attire. This has the potential to create certain barrier for certain people, specifically transgender people. A friend of mine, who’s name due to privacy and respect will not be shared, and who is fairly popular at UMBC, was stressed out about his attire because it wasn’t able to express her body the way that she had wanted it to be expressed to the world. A side note, bodies are our ways of communicating in the world and a person felt that because her body was not what she expected it to be, and exposing costume created a feeling of disapproval and dissatisfaction. In order to take away some of the stress I reminded her that it does not matter how people understand your bodies message to be, but rather to fully understand it yourself and have people who are close to you be the ones to genuinely understand your bodies message and the way you wish to be perceived.