Buon giorno! Welcome to ColumbusIsInTheBadPlace.com!
Grazie mille for joining us!
Grazie mille for joining us!
Columbus Is In The Bad Place is an art project & labour of love by me, Gina Stella dell'Assunta. I am an Italian-American writer & performance artist living on Ramaytush-Ohlone land (San Francisco, California, United States). I am a direct descendant of Calabrese anarcho-communists who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. I deeply love my Italian heritage. But I will never not be furious that my people decided to attach themselves to genocide, slave trade, rape, colonialism, and racism in a Devil’s Bargain for increased white and economic privilege and American citizenship.
I was inspired to create these pieces after learning about the existence of the annual San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade in 2020. This event is held over Indigenous Peoples' Day weekend every year in North Beach, San Francisco's Little Italy (and the neighbourhood in which I live). While Christopher Columbus' name was scrubbed from the official title of the event in the 1990s, there are absolutely still pro-Columbus elements to the Italian Heritage Parade, including floats representing Columbus' ships and so-called "discovery" of the Americas.
In 2021, I began to stand along the Italian Heritage Parade route with a simple hand-drawn sign, paraphrasing a line from one of my favourite television shows: "Columbus is in The BAD PLACE, due to all the raping, slave trade, and genocide!" People responded so positively to my sign in 2021 & 2022 that, in 2023, I decided to improve on it a little (see photo to the left) and launch this shop.
Anti-Columbus (and anti-fascist) shirts, posters, & prints will soon be available for purchase here. Half of any profits I make will be donated to the Ramaytush Ohlone Land Tax (San Francisco County, CA); the other half will go to me (a queer disabled artist on a fixed income). Please sign up below to get the news about our first shirt & poster launch. Thank you for supporting the work!
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