Leave "pride movements" where they belong: politics and pageantry. Animism isn't a movement. It also doesn't need recruitment. There are no gods to satisfy. It is a personal understanding of what it means to be connected to everything. No. It's not at all necessary to have an awareness day for animism, an animism week or month, there are no collections to be made, no souls to save. We don't need to make pride events for every aspect of our being. They are nonsensical except for being another venue to profit off of a specific community. Every event attracts vendors (because they help pay for the event). So animism pride events would become gatherings to hawk "pseudo-spirituality" gimmicks to people who attend out of curiosity.
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Hehe I had forgotten about that silly post of mine from a while ago. Must check the quality of my shower, mould can induce the funniest ideas. Not like I'm even the pride event person myself. If anyone else organized such a thing I wouldn't attend. Or who knows. Maybe I'd dress up as a sacred-looking boulder and scream 'Obey the landscape' while dancing to the ludicrous EDM/panflute soundtrack cooked up by some mushroom-headed DJ?
Silly things aside I think you're spot on. Attaching labels to stuff is a great way of killing them.