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Queering Tarot's Queens: Reclaiming Our Labor
Tarot's Queens are an uncomfortable reminder of how far we haven't come. It's a discomfort that will exist until patriarchy is only a memory.
Queering Tarot’s Court Cards
Some modern decks have addressed this by creating new, genderless terms for them. Names like "The Mentor" and "The Apprentice" pervade.
While I admire the creativity of such decks, the historical and social context of gender are hard to erase. Names change, but archetypes are what define tarot and those remain.