Book Endorsement for 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World

I was asked to write a book endorsement for 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World

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Book Endorsement

As a transracial adoptee, my life has been a journey of discovering and reclaiming my identity, which is what my creation of Black Tarot was: a call for community and empowerment toward imagining beyond what currently exists. Lane answers my call and takes a bold step forward, asking the provocative question: What if we used Tarot not just for personal enlightenment but as a compass for addressing grander societal challenges? 

As we navigate turbulent times and grapple with entrenched injustices, Smith offers a prompt in collective liberation—a call to action in the profound wisdom of our communal power for the betterment of our world. In reimagining the tarot cards as freedom movements and collectivists rather than individuals, readers will find guidance and inspiration to bridge the gap between insight and impact, between knowing and doing, beyond the sole into kinfolx. 

Lane's Seventy-Eight Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World emerges as a beacon of insight and action in an era seeking liberation and abolitionary change, ready for a revolution. 

The book is my chosen gift for others for the foreseeable future. 

-Nyasha Williams, author of Black Tarot, 

Keep Dreaming, Black Child, I Affirm Me, I Am Somebody, What’s the Commotion in the Ocean?, Ally Baby Can Series, and Where is Koketso?.

Co-author of Elemental Alchemist, The South African Alphabet of Affirmations, Saturday Magic, and Once Upon a Kwanzaa

Founder & Creative Director of Fire + Honey Press. 

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Lane Smith is a transmasculine nonbinary writer with over 20 years of experience as an activist, organizer, and Tarot reader. They have been involved in struggles against war, the death penalty, attacks on LGBT rights and body autonomy for marginalized genders and birthing people, police violence, apartheid, and genocide. They have worked as a social worker in prisons, and in the field of harm reduction with people who are at risk for HIV/AIDS. With a professional Master’s degree in Social Work and an academic Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Thought, Lane expresses their ideas in clear, nonacademic language in the interest of putting social justice values into practice. Lane is the editor of the Tarot & Politics zine, and a member of Solidarity Tarot where they live in Baltimore City, Maryland.

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