Humanity

Over The Moon
Welcome to my series if it's your first time, welcome back to my series if it's not your first time! The story so far... This series gives LGBTQIA+ people's perspectives on Tarot cards. Tarot is a set of symbols added on to playing cards, depicting a spiritual journey, used for meditation or fortune telling. Catch up with the characters we've met 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, the Devil, the Tower, and the Star. The version that's thought of 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. So I asked LGBTQIA+ Tarot users online to give me their viewpoints on the cards, and the result is this series!
By Steph Cole3 years ago in Pride
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:
By Steph Cole3 years ago in Pride
Tower 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.
By Steph Cole3 years ago in Pride
Bearded (Demi) Lady
If you try to picture someone who has a beard, would you automatically imagine a man? It wouldn’t be surprising or even wrong if you did. Facial hair, however, is just one of the numerous things that are unnecessarily gendered and labeled as something that is masculine and can only be masculine. By society’s standards, a beard is something that is exclusively for men while biological women do not have hair on their face or chest.
By Sarah Rhoden3 years ago in Pride
Sympathy 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.
By Steph Cole3 years ago in Pride
Losing 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)
By Steph Cole3 years ago in Pride
Discrimination Against the LGBTQ Community is Being Legalized by Many States
“Did they sleep in the same bed?”, asked a group of my friends about John and Patrick, who were overnight house guests of mine.
By Joan Gershman3 years ago in Pride
Hold yourself to the standards of your boss
Hold yourself to the standards of your boss An aging carpenter is ready to retire. His employer was grateful for his years of service and asked if he could build one last house. The carpenter agreed. However, the carpenter's mind was no longer on the job, and he worked sloppily, cutting corners and using poor quality materials to build the house casually. After finishing the work, the employer patted the carpenter's shoulder and said sincerely: the house is yours, this is my gift to you.
By 起飞3 years ago in Pride
What IS Love in 2022?
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
By Martha Madrigal3 years ago in Pride
Why Brittney Griner Matters
Brittney Griner has played basketball in Russia for the last 7 years. She was recently arrested for having cannabis in her possession. Brittney carries a letter from her doctor who prescribed cannabis for pain. Possession of cannabis is a criminal offense in Russia. I find it interesting this is the first time Brittney was stopped and arrested for cannabis when entering the country. Since before the 2016 presidential election, the Russians have been waging a war in America. The Russians have and continue to successfully use social media to divide this county. Americans haven't been this divided since the Civil War. Yet, we keep falling victim to Russian's new and successful war against the U. S.
By Sharon 3 years ago in Pride
Pride. Runner-Up in After the Parade Challenge.
The first time I saw her, I was seven. Baby blue plastic counter. waxy cream floor. The wood-colored handle of the fridge at my spine.
By Prairie Johnson3 years ago in Pride
Raging Homosexual
I just broke the metal gate. Before that, I finished masturbating just for a release of energy. Usually I think of nothing when I masturbate,
By Reed Whisler3 years ago in Pride