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This Mardi Gras, on March 2, 2019, Sydney Queer Atheists' float is Writing Our Future. We will push a giant book and several pages, each illustrating a different quandary our society faces, as we brandish giant pencils in an extremely simple choreography. Costumes will be simple aprons in blues, greens and teals - the fabric will be available to pick up beforehand if you want to make them fancy, or can be assembled with safety pins on the day. What you do to them, and what you wear underneath, is up to you!

Our society is currently in the process of making several big decisions that will deeply affect the future for us, our communities and our world. Sydney Queer Atheists wants to remind us that these choices belong not just to our representatives, but to all of us. We don't have to follow the same old script that favours the interests of the rich and powerful through injustice, inequality and abuse for the rest of us. Together we can write a brighter future. What will we choose?
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In 2018 our union banners of atheist history didn't get it together, so Kate & co ran Sydney Queer Tango's float instead. For 2019, though, we have a plan and our application is in - a whole week early!

>This year, we're planning early. Get in touch if you're interested or have any ideas!

The application form is in! There is still scope for change, so we'd love to hear ideas, thoughts, reactions or feelings about it, but this is now our starting point:

WRITING OUR FUTURE

We are building a large, pushable book in the process of being bound, with pushable pages floating ahead of the book. The cover of the book will bear our name and title, with each of the the pages will be illustrated offering a choice on a different issue - one: 'Religious exemptions from the Anti-Discrimination act OR Freedom from Discrimination'; another: 'Thoughts and Prayers OR Action and Change'. The full list of topics will be reviewed for topicality closer to the date, since everything is changing so quickly! We may use LED strip along the edges.
Costuming to be finalised - we're looking at bookbinding aprons with a fallback of printed tshirts, with people holding placards done up as smaller pages for smaller issues, writing and bookbinding tools.

...and here is my very quick sketch of what we may (or may not) look like!

Mardi Gras is less than a month away!

We're currently busy building six giant glowing Ionic columns for this year's float. We have decided that our 'Pillars of Society' will be Secular Education, Community; Diversity; Social & Environmental Justice; Democratic Decisionmaking; Scientific Method.

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It's not yet 2016, but we're working on our float!
This year we'll be portraying the secular Pillars of Society, with grand Ionian columns dancing down the street, representing Secular education, Social & environmental justice, Diversity, Reason...
What do you think are the top six pillars of society? Let us know!