Dear all,
I am working on a Tarot Deck for our class project on Politics of Resistance, as a way of co-creating a decolonial epistemology and performance.
I would love to hear all your amazing voices for our tarot deck, and perhaps a short quote from each of you: from either your own work or our readings in class. I am going to be using both found images and personal photography for the tarot card imagery, and I am imagining having a quote from the readings on each one, related to the card deck function of course. It will be interesting to begin thinking of the tarot deck and the readings together! One word to one sentence is perhaps more than enough text as a maximum for the deck design, but maybe more can fit on a tarot deck! Whatever you all agree on to share.
Please comment below.
One Love.
“Corporal-aesthetic sensuousness.”
— Silvia Cusicanqui, “The Potosí Principle: Another View of Totality”
“Can humanity, the world, all existing and living beings continue to live according to instrumentalized hegemonic knowledge or bonded to alienating capitalism, what the Zapatistas have called the “capitalist hydra” that keeps us subdued? Evidently, no—it is urgent that we recognize and valorize other ways of being in the world.”
– Juan López Intzín, “Sp’ijilal O’tan: Knowledges and Epistemologies of the Heart”
The indigenous world does not conceive of history as linear; the past- future is contained in the present.
– Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
“I am interested only in what is not mine.”
– Oswald de Andrade, “Manifesto Antropófago”
“Su cuerpo es una bocacalle. La mestiza has gone from being the sacrificial goat to becoming the offi.ciating priesr,ess at the crossroads. As a mes.tiza I have no country, my homeland cast me out;, yet all wuntries are mine because I am every woman’s sister or potential lover.” – Gloria Anzaldua – Boderlands – La Frontera