{"id":1093,"date":"2012-10-08T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2012-10-08T01:39:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T09:39:20","slug":"witches-give-columbus-the-bird-and-thats-not-all-for-gothtober-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2012\/10\/08\/witches-give-columbus-the-bird-and-thats-not-all-for-gothtober-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Witches Give Columbus the BIRD and that’s not all for Gothtober DAY 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Which Witch tells Columbus Day to go fly a kite? ALL OF THEM!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hold onto your falsies, Gothtober Pumpkin DAY 8<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong> (courtesy of Ian MacKinnon of GayHistorgy.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong>) is about to OPEN YOUR MIND with a fierce and immersive bitchy witchy (PG-13, parents, pay attention please!) ritual aimed at saving the world by helping it “get more gay” while also chasing away the false pageantry surrounding Columbus Day!<\/p>\n

Join Witches Lady Guya Magique Oshaughnessy, Lady Mary Juana and Lady Ass Majick in a comprehensive drag-magical anti-columbus observance! As spiritual muses of visibility and bravery, drag queens know a thing or two about the stinkers in high places trying to rewrite history, attempting to shut many of us into obscurity with the purpose of keeping our unequal power structure in favor of existing dominant forces. WELL\u00a0SCREW THAT! <\/em>There are no better experts than these three gorgeous glittery enchantresses to lead us away<\/em> from the curse of complicity and toward<\/em> getting off our asses to learn the truth about the world and our nation and ourselves, claiming our power and flipping Columbus Day THE BIRD.<\/p>\n

Instead, celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, which is, coincidentally: October 8th, 2012!<\/p>\n

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Ian McKinnon as your Gay Historgy Leather Daddy Professor – Photograph by Don Tinling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

George Orwell wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWho controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” This is pretty much what generations of school children, including myself, were told about Christopher Columbus. We were never told anything else about it, and we tucked it away in the back of our minds as one of those “nothing holidays” where we get to stay home from school or work.<\/p>\n