Magic is an essential tool for healing and social change within our
communities.
Liberation Tarot is a collection of 79 tarot cards and
accompanying guidebook, created over the course of four years by more
than thirty artists and writers living in the US, Canada, France,
Brazil, Palestine, and Mexico. The booklet includes an introduction from
deck organizer Elicia Epstein, insightful essays by adrienne maree
brown and lawrence barriner II, and beautifully crafted card
descriptions from poet emet ezell.
Following in the lineage of
projects like Slow Holler, The Collective Tarot, and Next World Tarot,
Liberation Tarot seeks to serve as a tool for those inspired towards
revolution in the face of the able-centered, capitalist,
heterocis-normative, white-supremacist patriarchy.
Tarot helps us
re-write the vocabulary of power, and with it, to strengthen our
muscles of radical, revolutionary, and abolitionist dreaming. The deck
eschews conventional tarot cards like the Emperor or Knight in favor of
non-hierarchical cards honoring revolutionary concepts and figures such
as the Crone, the Healer, and the Rebel, among others. Figures in the
deck have bodies of all shapes and sizes, colors, genders, ages, and
abilities—together, elaborating a vision of collective liberation and
co-resistance.
Featuring artwork by INVASORIX, Eva Wǒ, Elicia
Epstein, Cole James, Danielle Wright, As They Lay (Karryl Eugene and
Abdu Ali), Charmaine Bee, Petra Floyd and Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Katie
Kaplan, Cassie Thornton, J. Wu, Anne Horel, Kinoko, Malaya Tuyay,
Scarlet Tunkl, Amina Ross, Nissa Gustafson, Malak Mattar, Edgar Fabián
Frías, Amir Khadar, Mark Allen, Syan Rose, Aparna Sarkar, Shoog
McDaniel, nkiruka oparah, Nathaniel Russell, Jennifer Moon, and Jarret
Hood.
