Queer the Cards, Liberate Your Practice, and Create the Future
About the Book
Tarot is a tool of possibility, questioning, explorations and transformation. Yet too often it is reduced to rigid, binary definitions that reinforce restrictive norms. In Radical Tarot, Charlie Claire Burgess reclaims tarot as a tool that can help free us from oppressive paradigms and empower us to direct our own futures through radical reflection, self-discovery and change.
With deep, knowledgeable and lyrical looks at the cards, Charlie deconstructs the cards’ historical meanings, offers queered and updated interpretations and invites the reader to imagine what else could be possible for the cards, for themselves and for the world. Queer, expansive, intersectional and creative, Radical Tarot is more than a guide to tarot - it’s a guide to your own personal revolution.
Informed by queer theory, social and environmental justice and Charlie’s lived experience as a queer and non-binary person whose life was changed radically through tarot, Radical Tarot is for anyone who dreams that better, more liberated futures are possible.
Because tarot doesn’t tell the future; it helps us create it.
Number of Pages: 288 (Paperback)
About the Author
Charlie Claire Burgess is a tarot practitioner, writer, artist and witch. They are the creator of Fifth Spirit Tarot, a queer and inclusive deck for a world beyond binaries, and the host of The Word Witch podcast. They teach popular classes on tarot and magic online. Charlie’s creative writing has appeared in literary journals and anthologies and has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and notable mentions in two Best American anthologies.
Queer the Cards, Liberate Your Practice, and Create the Future
About the Book
Tarot is a tool of possibility, questioning, explorations and transformation. Yet too often it is reduced to rigid, binary definitions that reinforce restrictive norms. In Radical Tarot, Charlie Claire Burgess reclaims tarot as a tool that can help free us from oppressive paradigms and empower us to direct our own futures through radical reflection, self-discovery and change.
With deep, knowledgeable and lyrical looks at the cards, Charlie deconstructs the cards’ historical meanings, offers queered and updated interpretations and invites the reader to imagine what else could be possible for the cards, for themselves and for the world. Queer, expansive, intersectional and creative, Radical Tarot is more than a guide to tarot - it’s a guide to your own personal revolution.
Informed by queer theory, social and environmental justice and Charlie’s lived experience as a queer and non-binary person whose life was changed radically through tarot, Radical Tarot is for anyone who dreams that better, more liberated futures are possible.
Because tarot doesn’t tell the future; it helps us create it.
Number of Pages: 288 (Paperback)
About the Author
Charlie Claire Burgess is a tarot practitioner, writer, artist and witch. They are the creator of Fifth Spirit Tarot, a queer and inclusive deck for a world beyond binaries, and the host of The Word Witch podcast. They teach popular classes on tarot and magic online. Charlie’s creative writing has appeared in literary journals and anthologies and has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and notable mentions in two Best American anthologies.
