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With the Liberation Tarot Deck, artist and organizer Elicia Epstein offers not only an alternative to standard tarot decks but reframes the "traditional arcanas as an activist tool." The result of a multi-year collaboration with more than 30 artists and activists across the globe, this deck and its accompanying booklet eschew coherent aesthetics to showcase the style of each artist in cards "reimagined to fit a worldview that is beyond gender, disrupts assumptions of violence as power, and centers interdependence." Idiosyncratic suits of Vessels, Flowers, Spirals, and Blades blend with transformations of the known (such as the King of Cups becoming the Crone of Vessels, a card featuring "godmother of the Black Trans Lives Matter Movement" Ceyenne Doroshow) in this revolutionary entry into the tarot canon. --Kristen Coates, editor and freelance reviewer