shea✨ in the catskills shea✨ in the catskills

in this episode:


blog post for this episode, with images
Nemik’s Manifesto
Tarot 101 on Tuesday, July 23 at 6pm est + what people are saying about it
Online Tarot Circles
In-Person Tarot Circle 
My books are open book with me thru calendly
Alice Sparkly Kat
The Cosmic Dispatch 
In Conversation With Lane Smith on my podcast; their forthcoming book: 78 Acts of Liberation
Lama Rod Owens
2024 mood board: Careless Whisper, Yes, Sigi, Me every evening at around 7:30pm, Kamau Franklin
Palestinian Resistance
Working Class Love Notes
the most wonderful time of the year
artist Archie Moore’s kith and kin 
Survival is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
working class pianist at the public library
How To Survive the End of the World podcast—the sisters’ reunion
78 Faces of Power 
Marie Howe

Today I had the great good fortune of being in conversation with Lane Smith. Lane is a transmasculine nonbinary writer with over 20 years of experience as an activist, organizer, and Tarot reader. They have been involved in struggles against war, the death penalty, attacks on LGBT rights and body autonomy for marginalized genders and birthing people, police violence, and apartheid. They have worked as a social worker in prisons, and in the field of harm reduction with people who are at risk for HIV/AIDS. With a professional Master’s degree in Social Work and an academic Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Thought, Lane expresses their ideas in clear, nonacademic language in the interest of putting social justice values into practice. Lane is the editor of the Tarot & Politics zine, and a member of Solidarity Tarot where they live in Baltimore City, Maryland.

In addition to publishing the Tarot & Politics zine—a paid venue for Tarot writers and artists that prioritizes the voices of BIPOC, trans, nonbinary, queer, disabled and neurodivergent people—Lane is also author of the forthcoming 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World, available for pre-order now. + they also have a newsletter called Rebel Specters, which I highly recommend.

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Lane Smith on the interwebs: https://mxlanesmith.com/

78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World: https://bookshop.org/p/books/seventy-eight-acts-of-liberation-tarot-to-transform-our-world-lane-smith/20322387?ean=9781649632203

Tarot & Politics zine: https://mxlanesmith.com/publications/

Rebel Specters newsletter: https://buttondown.email/rebelspecters

The Rebis tarot magazine: https://linkin.bio/the__rebis

Armed Joy zine: https://eighteeneightytwo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/armed-joy-imposed.pdf

music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY 

shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

The Arcana in You ezine: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/the-arcana-in-you-ezine

study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

In this episode:


blog post for this episode (with kitty pic)
a little tarot something…
Online Tarot Circles
Asking Good Questions + what people are saying about it
In-Person Tarot Circle 
My books are open—book with me thru calendly
Public service announcement
Prison Solidarity Project
Amanita Muscaria Microdosing course with Gerti Schoen
No
iconic
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Shawn Fain
Mario Savio’s 1964 speech 
creating new worlds + new culture
The Cornell Lab’s Merlin Bird ID app
Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files
Call (707) 873-7862
Sophie Strand on Things to Say Instead of “I Hope You’re Feeling Better”...
Sam Gregg’s The Forgotten Naples
the artwork of Sebastien Preschoux
Artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir
RIP Faith Ringgold
The World is vast + wide, why do you [do what you do]?*
Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas by Patrick McGrath Muñiz
78 Faces of Power, a work in progress
poet Joy Sullivan

In this episode:


blog post for this episode
Online Tarot Circles 
Tarot 101 +  what people are saying about it
In-Person Tarot Circle 
Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
My books are open book with me thru calendly
Toi Derricotte
co-resting cohorts with Nina Hatfield
In Search of the Goddess art show
Toni Cade Bambara
Dr. Mohammed Subeth on MSNBC
@areejakoud’s Silent Prayer
Hammer & Hope’s Spring 2024 issue about Palestin
Caroline Bird
Sweet Tea With Emily Dickinson by Sybil Rosen


UK fiber + embroidery artist Nature Nurture + UK typewriter artist James Cook
Claire Foy 👑
a conversation with a woman who lacks an internal monologue
Olayemi Olurin giving this asshole the what-for
Louise Thompson & the First March On Washington via Prisonculture’s substack
A woman lost her dog for 5 days 
eclipse season vibes
The Gentle Tarot
more about Yukon here + a short video about him 
more about Kevin here

In this episode:


blog post for this offering (cat picture!)
Online Tarot Circles 
In-Person Tarot Circle
Using Tarot to Work With the Dead 
Study Tarot Series + what people have said about it
My books are open + it’s easy to book thru calendly
Return to the Root Retreat
The Grief Room
I made some zines
Loretta Ross
More of this energy in 2024 
Artist Nick Cave on Loss, Yearning, Transcendence 
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, her convo with James Baldwin here, + this
Reimagining Life With Friendship at the Center via Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study substack”
Prison Art: Drawing Is an Outlet and Source of Income for Incarcerated People, an op-ed by Juan Hernandez
Born at the Right Time by Natalie Labriola 
feline blessings
Jenny Holzer
78 Faces of Power
Cameron Awkward-Rich; hear him read it here

In this episode:


blog post for this episode (it’s where the kitty pic lives!) 
Online Tarot Circles 
Asking Good Questions + what people have said about the experience
still room to join the Study Tarot Series cohorts-in-progress
My books are open + it’s easy to book thru calendly
George Washington Carver
Jonathan Louis Dent
Suzette Clough’s online classes + Visual Medicine Facilitator Training
you can apply here for a penpal thru the Prison Solidarity Project
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Elena Solano + I are collaborating on a playlist 
Downton Abbey
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism study group is reading the Counterinsurgency Field Manual Email Jared to join + make a donation if you ca
Dana Piazza’s artwork
The Feminist on Cellblock Y
Alice Sparkly Kat’s Astro Poem Generator + their Astro-Kat’s offering
Mariame Kaba’s newsletter + the People’s Pottery Project
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
SURJ
the Squad
Christofascist far-right state their goals plainly
SURJ’s strategy for 2024