Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() I have seen queer tarot cards save people's lives. From there, Cassandra Snow builds the cards anew, in a way that speaks to everyone regardless of their gender identity, sexuality, or gender expression. For ‘straight’ people, it will not only show them how the rest of the world lives-and how to read for queer people-but what may be most valuable, it will give them the experience of discovering themselves in a set of images and symbols not directly about them.” -Rachel Pollack, author of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom “Queering the Tarot takes the tarot cards that we all love and peels them back to their bones. Is it only for queer people, then? Absolutely not. ![]() ![]() Now we have a book that joyously embraces all those hidden people, using the cards not just to tackle queer issues but to celebrate who we all are. People outside that ‘normality’ (a Dutch slogan from the 1980's: ‘Ever meet a normal person? And did you like it?’) learned to subtly code themselves into the pictures. For most of those 600 years, the images represented a hierarchical society assumed to consist of cisgendered, heterosexual white people, primarily of the privileged classes. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR QUEERING THE TAROT “Queering The Tarot is an indispensable book in the modern re-workings of the 600-year-old images, symbols, and stories-indispensable, not just for LGBTQQIPA2P+ people, but for anyone who wants to see how the tarot can expand and open to the world. ![]()
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