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A Star Is Born This Way
Hello, if you're new here! Hello too, if you're one of my regular readers following the series this far. Either way, we start with the usual catch up:
Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) ColePublished 2 years ago in PrideTower Blockage
If you're new here: This is a blog series giving LGBTQIA+ people's perspectives on the Tarot cards. Tarot is a set of symbols added on to a deck of playing cards, depicting a spiritual journey, to be used for meditation or fortune telling. Catch up with the characters we've met on the journey so far by clicking on these links for the Fool, the Magician, the High Priestess, the Empress, the Emperor, the Hierophant, the Lovers, the Chariot, Strength, the Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, and the Devil. The particular version that's thought of today as the basic traditional Tarot, from which the myriad of decks are influenced and inspired, was drawn by mixed race bisexual lady Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith, whose insights I'm sure made it into this art commission given her by straight white men, whatever their expectations of her might have been. So I've asked LGBTQIA+ Tarot users in online groups to give me their viewpoints on the cards, and the result is this series of blogs.
Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) ColePublished 2 years ago in PridePronoun Badges: Supporting Gender Identity in the Workplace
However, according to Totaljobs, 60% of transgender employees have suffered workplace discrimination. The same study revealed over half of trans workers felt they had to hide the fact they are trans from their co-workers.
Adam JohnsonPublished 2 years ago in PrideSympathy for the Devil
Welcome back to my once-neglected, but now well in the process of completion, series of blogs giving LGBTQIA+ persepctives on the Tarot cards.
Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) ColePublished 2 years ago in PrideLosing My Temperance
Look at me finding my way through the chronic fatigue brain-fog and finishing three entries in my LGBTQIA+ Tarot series in one day! (however long they take to be submitted and published)
Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) ColePublished 2 years ago in PrideWe Shouldn't Care If Someone's "Faking" Being Queer For Attention
There is this odd narrative that gay, bi, and trans people are just being queer for attention. For the past couple of years, there has been a lot of discourse around the concept of "transtrenders" (i.e., people who allegedly aren't "real" trans individuals and are just identifying as such for attention). Before this, countless straight people claimed this same thing for gay and bi people. We were "just being dramatic" or "going through a phase."
Alex Mell-TaylorPublished 2 years ago in PrideDeath Becomes Him/Her/Them
So it turns out actually doing things you think you're too tired to do because of post covid chronic fatigue, actually makes you feel a little bit better - so, onwards with my Queer Tarot series!
Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) ColePublished 2 years ago in PrideWhen Arabs & LGBT Youth Mix
*I could not find the original article I wrote about here. Sorry in advance!* The article I chose is about the LGBT community in the Arab Empire. The School Experience of Arab LGBT Students in Israel teachers tends to respond by ignoring the insults voiced toward gay and lesbians or the acts of violence committed against them (Ajai).
The Hanged Man(ifestation)
Welcome to the next - oft-delayed but always eventually here - entry in my Queer Tarot series! If you're new here, the story so far:
Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) ColePublished 2 years ago in PrideI stole a piece of the Rainbow
Imagine waking up and getting knocked down. Now imagine having a Headache with a different type of nausea feeling…before I could lift my head and look up, there I was face down in a puddle of my own vomit!
HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward)Published 2 years ago in PrideLove Me Not
Love Me Not Sebastian is in love with his best friend Leo. It’s obvious, really, from the very beginning of their friendship. They both have a tendency to be stubborn and always try to prove each other wrong, but deep down Sebastian knows that he doesn’t have to prove anything.
Vex Luther LionheartPublished 2 years ago in Pride"All that sweetness amid strength"
Now that I've got fed up with myself for leaving this series unfinished so long, my brain is finally cull of stuff to carry it on in rapid succession, so here's the next part!
Mx. Stevie (or Stephen) ColePublished 2 years ago in Pride