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Fun Home musical 

Alison Bechdel in her Minnesota apartment 3/16/1990 (photo by Tom Sweeney)

Janelle Monáe and Grimes Share New Song and Video “PYNK”

Maricielo by Juan Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek, from “Virgenes de la Puerta” a photo series of Peruvian trans women and leaders within the transgender community in Peru

It’s a festive day here in my region so my plans are basically celebrating and being happy and proud of the sunny place of the world I’m lucky to live in. And because of this joy and sunny-ness (ha!), today’s chosen deck is the ELAK Tarot, created by Linnea Frank. It is one of the most unique decks I have seen, and as you can see, it goes really well with my mood!

The 78 cards feature watercolour and ink illustrations that strike a perfect combination of rich symbols and unity. Linnea adds: “Balancing between kitsch and simplicity, this is a rich and colourful deck, filled with mystical symbolism and queer characters”. The design is super interesting: it is done in such a way that each card looks like a piece or a close-up of a bigger illustration. This allows for a really interesting creative process by which you can almost complete that potential full image. The fact that there are no borders framing the images really adds to this sensation.

The illustrations are super colourful, and there’s a predominance of orange and blue hues. I feel it’s very summery and cheery, but also quite contemplative. Though you can appreciate a variety of characters (let’s pause for a bit to admire the diverse skin colours), it’s not possible to see them entirely - it’s always just a part of them (I love it when it’s hands). But there are also other elements besides people, like fruits, lots of leaves, flowers, clours, stars, suit symbols, and animals. A lot of the traditional symbols are present, like the Hermit’s lamp ot the Devil’s chains.

Majors feature their roman numeral as well as their names, whereas the minors only contain their number (from 2 to 10), or their name (aces and court cards) - in white. The backs are non-reversible and they feature the suit symbols against a white circle in an orange background. The cards do not come with a box or booklet, but I’ve already found a nice place to keep them safe!

The ELAK Tarot is a vibrant, unusual and upbeat deck that brings sunshine to any meditation session or reading. While apparently simple in design, this deck is thoughtful and full of aspects to explore (even beyond the actual limits of the illustration) because of its up close approach. Linnea has managed to bring together tradition and innovation, so be sure to check this deck out, as well as other design goodies at her store!

It’s a festive day here in my region so my plans are basically celebrating and being happy and proud of the sunny place of the world I’m lucky to live in. And because of this joy and sunny-ness (ha!), today’s chosen deck is the ELAK Tarot, created by Linnea Frank. It is one of the most unique decks I have seen, and as you can see, it goes really well with my mood!

The 78 cards feature watercolour and ink illustrations that strike a perfect combination of rich symbols and unity. Linnea adds: “Balancing between kitsch and simplicity, this is a rich and colourful deck, filled with mystical symbolism and queer characters”. The design is super interesting: it is done in such a way that each card looks like a piece or a close-up of a bigger illustration. This allows for a really interesting creative process by which you can almost complete that potential full image. The fact that there are no borders framing the images really adds to this sensation.

The illustrations are super colourful, and there’s a predominance of orange and blue hues. I feel it’s very summery and cheery, but also quite contemplative. Though you can appreciate a variety of characters (let’s pause for a bit to admire the diverse skin colours), it’s not possible to see them entirely - it’s always just a part of them (I love it when it’s hands). But there are also other elements besides people, like fruits, lots of leaves, flowers, clours, stars, suit symbols, and animals. A lot of the traditional symbols are present, like the Hermit’s lamp ot the Devil’s chains.

Majors feature their roman numeral as well as their names, whereas the minors only contain their number (from 2 to 10), or their name (aces and court cards) - in white. The backs are non-reversible and they feature the suit symbols against a white circle in an orange background. The cards do not come with a box or booklet, but I’ve already found a nice place to keep them safe!

The ELAK Tarot is a vibrant, unusual and upbeat deck that brings sunshine to any meditation session or reading. While apparently simple in design, this deck is thoughtful and full of aspects to explore (even beyond the actual limits of the illustration) because of its up close approach. Linnea has managed to bring together tradition and innovation, so be sure to check this deck out, as well as other design goodies at her store!

Romaine Brooks, Peter, a Young English Girl (1923–1924), a portrait of the artist Gluck

Finally, the ELAK Tarot deck is here!

Individual watercolour and ink illustration feature on each of the 78 cards, making it a unique and personal deck. Balancing between kitsch and simplicity, this is a rich and colourful deck, filled with mystical symbolism and queer characters alike. The ELAK Tarot is based on the classic Rider Waite deck and follows the same structure.

1st edition. Measures 70x140mm. Cards are plastic coated and printed on Heretic 305um Black Cored Playing Card Board. For interpretations and guidance in the practice of Tarot, we recommend e.g. The Little Red Tarot. 

Illustration and design by Linnea Frank.

Radical Transfeminism Zine

“We are dreaming, and have been dreaming for decades, of forms of radical social transformation, rooted in Black radicalism, anarcho-communism, Gay Liberationist and other collectivist politics. We have been necessarily working towards alternatives to capitalism and practicing them on a micro level (when we can steal the hours to do so). Our feminism has emerged through the experiences of our lives of transgressing gender norms (gender norms that are always racialised, classed and abled); through challenging the gender identity police (psychiatrists) and the bourgeois politics of trans and queer liberalisms; through imbibing feminist writings and the writings of women and men of colour, of queer and trans writers, through pulling a transfeminist herstory out of obscurity.”

Featuring writing, visuals and manifestoes on transmisogyny, boredom, erasure, agency, trauma and embodiment, strikes in the university, sexual politics, healthcare, activist and cultural spaces, reproductive justice, justice, desire, poetics.

Autumn 2017. 64 pages.

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Illustration by Mukund.

Felix d’Eon’s Queer lottery cards

Storme

photographed by Avery Willard

Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was a butch lesbian whose purported scuffle with police, many eyewitnesses recount, was the defining moment that incited the Stonewall riots, spurring the crowd to action.  

gender troubles: the butches (lisa plourde, 2017)

Brassaï , Im Lesben-Club Le Monocle- die Chefin, 1932

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**Milkshake for Two**

This limited edition print is available in my Etsy Store. Click HERE.