Liberation Tarot

Magic is an essential tool for healing and social change within our communities.

Liberation Tarot is a collection of 79 tarot cards and accompanying guidebook, created over the course of four years by more than thirty artists and writers living in the US, Canada, France, Brazil, Palestine, and Mexico. The booklet includes an introduction from deck organizer Elicia Epstein, insightful essays by adrienne maree brown and lawrence barriner II, and beautifully crafted card descriptions from poet emet ezell.

Liberation Tarot is a powerful, revolutionary deck designed to foster healing, social change, and collective liberation.

Created over four years by 30+ artists from across the globe, this 79-card tarot deck and guidebook blend radical imagination with traditional tarot, replacing hierarchical archetypes like the Emperor with figures like the Rebel and the Healer.

Featuring diverse bodies, abilities, and perspectives, this deck is a tool for abolitionist, anti-capitalist, and inclusive visions of the future. Essays by adrienne maree brown and lawrence barriner II deepen the spiritual and social context of this deck.

Tarot helps us re-write the vocabulary of power, and with it, to strengthen our muscles of radical, revolutionary, and abolitionist dreaming. The deck eschews conventional tarot cards like the Emperor or Knight in favor of non-hierarchical cards honoring revolutionary concepts and figures such as the Crone, the Healer, and the Rebel, among others. Figures in the deck have bodies of all shapes and sizes, colors, genders, ages, and abilities-together, elaborating a vision of collective liberation and co-resistance.

Featuring artwork by INVASORIX, Eva W, Elicia Epstein, Cole James, Danielle Wright, As They Lay (Karryl Eugene and Abdu Ali), Charmaine Bee, Petra Floyd and Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Katie Kaplan, Cassie Thornton, J. Wu, Anne Horel, Kinoko, Malaya Tuyay, Scarlet Tunkl, Amina Ross, Nissa Gustafson, Malak Mattar, Edgar Fabin Fras, Amir Khadar, Mark Allen, Syan Rose, Aparna Sarkar, Shoog McDaniel, nkiruka oparah, Nathaniel Russell, Jennifer Moon, and Jarret Hood.