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An intergenerational collaboration featuring 78 papercut images from Ruth West's 1984 Thea's Tarot deck, coupled with author Oliver Pickle's contemporary queer interpretations of each card. Tarot, among other occult practises, is enjoying a resurgence in queer communities, but its practitioners often find themselves revising interpretative texts to fit their realities. By embracing an older deck and similtaneously developing current and re-visioned ways of interpreting its images and the cards' meanings in general, She is Sitting in the Night provides an informed, aesthetically strong accessible queer tarot book for feminists, queers, and tarot readers old and new.

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A beautifully crafted book, one that is filled with stirring images that are accompanied by an interesting exploration of symbolism that will provoke thought in even the most casual of readers. --apt613 An important document, a conversation across generations of feminism and LGBTQ politics. --Autostraddle The descriptions are a mix of charm, thoughtfulness, and humour which make for an insightful, meaningful, political, but also sometimes very light hearted read. --Spiral Nature

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Oliver Pickle is a Montreal-based trans writer, publisher, and editor with a soft spot for the esoteric and supernatural. Long-committed to tarot for the skeptical and unconvinced, Oliver leans toward contemporary readings of tarot, often re-visioned through a feminist, queer, and trans lens. Oliver's work has also appeared in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, make/shift magazine, and other publications. Ruth West, after graduating with a degree in art, created Thea's Tarot in 1984 in papercut, based on Billy Potts's A New Women's Tarot. Since then, she has become an internationally recognized artist working with digital art. One of the first graduates with a Master's of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics, Ruth West's art has grown steadily along with this medium. She was the first computer artist in residence at Monet's Garden in Giverny, France, creating an 80-piece series called the Digital Garden. Rima Athar is a lover and a fighter with roots in Pakistan and connections to feminist organizing for rights and justice all over the world. You will most likely catch her on an adventure, revelling in nature and beauty, swept up in thought, laughing under the moon, stretching on a mountaintop, making use of her hands, swimming in the ocean, and shape-shifting a lot.

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