So. Have you heard the news?
Let’s all jump in the air and shout ‘WOO-HOO’ because everybody’s favourite queer-activist punk illustrator cartoonist zinester CRISTY C ROAD is making a tarot deck. In collaboration with none other than radical poet, writer and organiser MICHELLE TEA.
YES!
I’ve been following this project for almost a year hoping for a full-length interview but the truth is, Cristy is *ridiculously* busy doing grad school, the tarot deck, being an awesome activist and hell, being a freelance artist trying to get by in this world, so that gem of an article will have to come when it comes.
@littleredtarot @TeaMichelle @RADAR_info sorry im taking more than a year…. my drawings are gonna look tight as all fuck is the thing.
— Cristy C. Road (@croadcore) April 21, 2015
Meantime, please take this opportunity to enjoy the gallery of tarot-cards-so-far below, and support Cristy by any means possible, including:
Buy her artwork (including prints of some of the tarot cards below!)
Buy her books (including one of my favourite ever graphic novels Spit and Passion!)
Follow her on Facebook
Follow her on Twitter
Visit her website croadcore.org
The following images all copyright Cristy C Road:
PS
You should also check out this picture of radical tarot reader Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha which, of course, Cristy created for Leah’s forthcoming autobiography. Here’s an *incredible* interview with Leah about tarot, intersectionality, activism and radical self-care.
I’m a 30-something writer, artist, tarot reader, and perpetual explorer of the space between thought, feeling, and action.
I believe that spirituality and ritual are for everybody. I’m about the journey, in all of its messy, non-linear, chaotic iterations. I am excited by anticapitalist business and living with my whole entire self present. I use tarot cards to bring forth hidden truth, and ritual to affirm my commitment, over and over, to my ever-shifting path.
Dear lord I will need this deck! This deck will be fierce!
Fierce! Yeah! I *LOVE* the Queen of Swords so much I just ordered a print for my wall.
Well, clearly I am going to need this in my life. *Pootles off to add it to wish list*