The Woman Behind The Worldās Most Famous Tarot Deck Was Nearly Lost In History
For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.
The cardsā enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today ā the Rider-Waite deck from 1909,Ā originally published by Rider & Co. ā fell into obscurity, overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.
Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism in addition to famous names like Georgia OāKeeffe and Louise Nevelson.
These five features of apartheid SouthAfrica are echoed in Israeli policies toward Palestinians today: 1. land expropriation, 2. racial classification, 3. mass displacement, 4. violent repression, and 5. token independence.
This series will be exhibited for the first time in London on Nov. 3, in partnership with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK, at their Justice in Palestine conference on ending Israeli apartheid. PSCJusticeConf
"Itās often unhealthy to hyper-analyze your sexuality to the point where how you experience it changes where you belong. This is why the idea that broader terms are somehow more restrictive is baffling. Continuously breaking labels down and creating terminology for each facet of oneās identity shrinks communities until itās just one person convinced that theyāre the only one who relates to their experiences. It isolates people and ignores the importance of individuality within a collective identity."
[ID: Having a plethora of specific atomized sexualities discourages broad alliances and forming solidarity over shared experiences. Instead, it forces people to over-analyze themselves and focus on how they're different from others rather than what they have in common with them. We should embrace the many ways we experience our attraction, not dissect them into different "types" that we mustn't ever conflate sectioning everyone off over the most minor contrasts does us no favors. We should approach sexual liberation with collectivism, not individualism.]
Indigenous writers know what it's like to live in a world where the horror never stops ā so imagining an alternate timeline where it does end can be a comforting escape.
What more is there to fear when youāve already faced governments who have tried for centuries to wipe you out, who have used biological warfare and forced starvation to create apocalypse for your people?
Itās remarkable to consider that many non-Indigenous horror writers depict situations that Indigenous people have already weathered ā such as apocalyptic viral outbreaks that decimate whole populations ā or use the history of genocidal violence against us to explain why innocent white folks are being haunted today, such as in Stephen Kingās It or the 1982 film Poltergeist. In fact, Iām not sure what scares non-Indigenous horror writers and readers more: experiencing variations of what Indigenous folks have already endured for centuries, or the reality that they have built their entire country on literal Indian burial grounds.
Indigenous writers, on the other hand, acknowledge the mundane horror of living in a country that dehumanizes you, weaving the reality of Indigenous life with fiction to scare audiences. In Waubgeshig Riceās Moon of the Crusted Snow, for example, the apocalyptic event that ends life as we know it ā taking out power, internet, phones, satellites, etc. ā isnāt even really noticed as an apocalyptic event at first; itās just another day on a northern rez, where power can go out at any time and internet and phone signals arenāt always available. As Nick, a young Anishinaabe man, points out, āWe thought it was kinda funnyā¦The blackout was only two days, but it seemed like some people were already freaking out a little bit. I was just like, āCome to the rez, this shit happens all the time!āā Once it becomes apparent that things have changed forever, the protagonist Evan observes that āthe milestones he [now] used to mark time were the deaths in the communityā¦as people perished through sickness, mishap, violence or by their own hands.ā He notes that northern reserves like his are āfamiliar with tragedy,ā the result of generations of intergenerational trauma and genocide ā only now this tragedy is magnified.
Similarly, Jeff Barnabyās new movie Blood Quantum takes the real-life horror of Indigenous history and plugs it into a zombie horror film. In Barnabyās film, a zombie virus ravages a non-Indigenous community that borders a reserve; the only thing that saves the Indigenous community from the same fate is their apparent immunity to that virus. The communityās decision to take in non-Native survivors, who may turn into zombies and kill their people, is a fraught one for the filmās characters. Considering the devastation viruses carried by white settlers have historically wrought on Indigenous communities ā the 1862 smallpox epidemic is estimated to have cut the First Nations population in whatās now known as British Columbia in half ā itās not hard to understand why.
āA body is no longer a holistic system. It is not the vehicle through which we experience joy and pleasure during our brief time in the land of the living. It is not a home to live in and be happy. It, too, is a collection of features: six pack, thigh gap, cum gutters. And these features exist not to make our lives more comfortable, but to increase the value of our assets. Our bodies are investments, which must always be optimized to bring usā¦ what, exactly? Some vague sense of better living? Is a life without bread objectively better than a life with it? When we were children, did we dream of counting every calorie and logging every step?ā
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āBut if parents have never been given a framework to recognize their childās communication or experience (ABA supplies neither)ā¦then any āacting outā is often that child advocating for themselves in the only way they can.ā
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Also, getting your first apartment is usually a hella expensive financial move, and most of us are broke, where you gonna get $3000 to pay for all this?!????!!!!!!!? Hash brown unrealistic expectations. Start out with a few chances of clothes and two plates and learn from the process and grow. Youāll miss the experience of really starting out fresh and independant otherwise
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Hi, hello, Iām he original creator of this list, just sporting a different url rn. This list isnāt meant to be a āyou MUST get every single thing hereā idea, itās simply a list of all the things a person might want when they move out and it gives them a base point to pick and choose from. I know it helped a lot of my friends who were moving out for the first time because it reminded them about important things they would have otherwise never thought of until they actually needed it. I simply tried to be as inclusive to as many life styles as possible, so thanks.
And fyi for a lot of people who have anxiety issues like my brother or depression issues like me, simple things like remembering to buy milk and bread can take a lot out of us some days- especially if we have something as huge and stressful as moving out going on. This big olā list is also for the people who, like us, NEED to feel like we have something we can fall back on and keep us focused.
Remember Rahul Dubuy who sheltered protestors in his Washington D. C. home? Heās now being hounded by police when he leaves his home. Here he is out for a walk being followed by a crowd of police on bicycles and in cars, flashing their lights.
[ID: An Instagram post by Rahul Dubuy @alvarezdubuy showing a screen capture of a video of the top of his head and a crowd of police on bicycles and in cars following along behind him. He says āMy evening stroll brings unnecessary followers... These are OUR streets. There is nothing to see here āAuthoritiesā. Keep moving and return to humanity. Godspeed.ā]
Hereās the original story for those who missed it.
This is exactly what police do. Like I need y'all to fully understand that this type of gang-stalking/terrorizing/intimidating behaviour is FAR from abnormal for police.Ā It is fully par for the course and that goes triple in times of social upheaval like this.Ā They will very likely do this to everyone involved in protests whose efforts to help protestors gained high profile.Ā All of those people need our consistent and unwavering support and protection
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