Thu May 23, 2024
On Tarot and Divinatory Literacy for Liberation (In-Person)
at California Institute of Integral Studies - CIIS
(6:00 PM)
Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, and educator Christopher Marmolejo frames literacy as key to liberation, exploring tarot as critical literacy. Through their work, Christopher reveals how the cards can be read to subvert the dynamics of white supremacist-capitalist-imperialist-patriarchy, weaving historical context and spiritual practice into a comprehensive overview of the tarot.
Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame-Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui-Christopher's work and writing is a profound act of reclamation and liberation.
In their latest book, Red Tarot, each card's interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Jose Esteban Munoz, and others in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author's divination practice-revealing tarot as an essential language for liberation. Christopher's work speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking-LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular-presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves.
Join Christopher in a conversation that moves beyond self-help and the Hellenistic frame of tarot to reclaim it for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
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Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame-Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui-Christopher's work and writing is a profound act of reclamation and liberation.
In their latest book, Red Tarot, each card's interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Jose Esteban Munoz, and others in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author's divination practice-revealing tarot as an essential language for liberation. Christopher's work speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking-LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular-presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves.
Join Christopher in a conversation that moves beyond self-help and the Hellenistic frame of tarot to reclaim it for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, and educator Christopher Marmolejo frames literacy as key to liberation, exploring tarot as critical literacy. Through their work, Christopher reveals how the cards can be read to subvert the dynamics of white supremacist-capitalist-imperialist-patriarchy, weaving historical context and spiritual practice into a comprehensive overview of the tarot.
Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame-Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui-Christopher's work and writing is a profound act of reclamation and liberation.
In their latest book, Red Tarot, each card's interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Jose Esteban Munoz, and others in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author's divination practice-revealing tarot as an essential language for liberation. Christopher's work speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking-LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular-presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves.
Join Christopher in a conversation that moves beyond self-help and the Hellenistic frame of tarot to reclaim it for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
read more
Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame-Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui-Christopher's work and writing is a profound act of reclamation and liberation.
In their latest book, Red Tarot, each card's interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Jose Esteban Munoz, and others in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author's divination practice-revealing tarot as an essential language for liberation. Christopher's work speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking-LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular-presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves.
Join Christopher in a conversation that moves beyond self-help and the Hellenistic frame of tarot to reclaim it for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
show less
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