Tarot for Nonbinary Thinking

Most people think of tarot as a fortune-telling device, but when we explore this evocative pack of cards from a queer vantage, we discover that the tarot is also an essentially queer-aligned tool for nonbinary thinking. Using the cards, we can interrupt colonial cis-heteronormative binary models of thinking that divide existence into male/female, good/bad, human/nature, mind/body, perfection/failure, us/them; and instead cultivate nonbinary ways of thinking and feeling that embrace strangeness, curiosity, liminality, complexity, flexibility, and change. 

In this 2-hour live virtual class, we will reframe the tarot's Major Arcana as a journey from binary thinking to nonbinary thinking, shift our perspective from fatalism and absolutes to possibility and creativity, and explore methods and frameworks for using the cards in this queer and liberatory way.  

Tarot for Nonbinary Thinking is part of the Meet Me At The Margin Virtual Queer Conference, an  new month-long conference on re-storying queerness through a mystical lens, organized by Nick…