![]() ![]() Queering the Tarot explores themes of sexuality, coming out, gender and gender-queering, sources of oppression and empowerment, and many other topics especially familiar to not-straight folks. In Queering the Tarot, Cassandra Snow deconstructs the meanings of the 78 cards explaining the ways in which each card might be interpreted against the norm. ![]() Tarot has the power to serve a greater population, with the right keys to unlock the tarot's deeper meanings. Humanity is diverse-culturally, spiritually, sexually. But at what point do archetypes become stereotypes? At the root of card meanings are archetypes that we accept without questioning. But what if that window only opened up on a world that was white, European, and heterosexual? The interpretations of the tarot that have been passed down through tradition presuppose a commonality and normalcy among humanity. Tarot archetypes provide the reader with a window into present circumstances and future potential. Tarot is best used as a tool for self-discovery, healing, growth, empowerment, and liberation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The exhibition in cooperation with the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung ![]() The idea of having an exhibition of Xu Yong’s negatives, eventually implementing Part in keeping memory and awareness of this turning point in Chinese historyĪlive, the Hamburger Sinologische Gesellschaft (Sinological society) advanced Since then, the subject of the student movement has become taboo in China, the taboo enforced both online and offline, targeting “professional” dissidents as well as common relatives of victims of the military crackdown. The movement represents the peak of China’s gradual move towards openness and social liberalization in the 1980s, its untimely, violent end was a traumatic rupture of civilization which China had last experienced during the infamous “Great Cultural Revolution” of the late 1960s. ![]() This year’s June will see the 30 th anniversary of the deadly suppression of the 1989 Chinese student movement. Xu Yong’s exhibition shown in Hamburg, Germany from February 11 to March 16, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() Tangerine County is entirely unique, with its underground lignite fires, its constant lightning strikes, its landscape of orange groves, and its people. While Tangerine is a story about class difference, power, denial and glory, it is also very much a story about a place. Paul and Erik’s parents and the rest of the community feed into this dream to the point that they blind themselves to Erik’s dark side-a side that directly impacts the people of Tangerine. In his senior year of school, he is determined to be a football star. As Paul grows close to the rough but honest kids of Tangerine, he comes to see the lies and the violence festering beneath the surface of his own community and family.Īt the heart of Lake Windsor’s problems is Paul’s own brother, Erik. ![]() On the one side is the sterile and ultra-safe environment of the Lake Windsor and its wealthy housing developments on the other side is Tangerine, an enclave of Hispanic and black working families, the people who labor in the orange groves and service Lake Windsor, poor people who depend on each others’ loyalty and commitment to survive. Told in journal entries, Tangerine provides an intimate look into a divided community. ![]() In fact Paul sees through most things in his upper middle class community-a sterile housing development in Tangerine County, Florida, called Lake Windsor Downs, where Paul and his family have just moved. ![]() Paul Fisher, the protagonist of Tangerine, has bad eyes, but this doesn’t mean he’s blind. ![]() |