Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day for sanitized words or concepts; it is a day to fight society’s attempts (via law and police violence) to sanitize the wilder, unrulier, more chthonic aspects of sex. This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist. It is a day to oppose censorship, not to engage in self-censorship; a day to honor a means of survival that predates laws and governments by eons; and a day to celebrate a power which will always defeat even the most pernicious attempts to domesticate it.
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Whores’ Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, Perception, Philosophy, Words, tagged activism, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, censorship, holidays, language, paganism on June 2, 2026| 1 Comment »
May Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on May 1, 2026| 2 Comments »
May Eve 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on April 30, 2026| 1 Comment »
Easter 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on April 5, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Vernal Equinox 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on March 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun will cross the equator moving northward at 14:46 UTC today, marking the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern. Enjoy the milder weather to come, and Blessed Be!
Mardi Gras 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays on February 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Since Andrea Mistretta retired her Mardi Gras poster series last year, here’s her poster from 2011; I’ll start going backward from there in years to come. Happy Mardi Gras, dear readers!
Valentine’s Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on February 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
As longtime readers know, Valentine’s Day is my least favorite of holidays, and I’m not particularly fond of the typical iconography associated with it, either (which is often weird or violent or creepy as hell). So every year I try to share an exception, like this cute little elephant with a “clever” message that isn’t an abysmal pun.
Imbolc 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on February 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »
May the reawakening of the world bring with it the reawakening of good things you thought gone forever. Blessed Be!
Little Christmas 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays, Italy, witchcraft on January 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If you’re wondering who La Befana is and what she has to do with Christmas, I suggest you consult my column from this day in 2015, which also (not by coincidence) contains links to the columns for the previous four years. That should give you all the information you need to understand why I’m wishing some of my readers a Merry Christmas, some a Good Epiphany and others a Happy King Day, and welcoming all of you to the Carnival season!
New Year’s Day 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on January 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year, dear readers!
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