Today I had the great good fortune of being in conversation with Lane Smith. Lane 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, and apartheid. 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.

In addition to publishing the Tarot & Politics zine—a paid venue for Tarot writers and artists that prioritizes the voices of BIPOC, trans, nonbinary, queer, disabled and neurodivergent people—Lane is also author of the forthcoming 78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World, available for pre-order now. + they also have a newsletter called Rebel Specters, which I highly recommend.

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Lane Smith on the interwebs: https://mxlanesmith.com/

78 Acts of Liberation: Tarot to Transform Our World: https://bookshop.org/p/books/seventy-eight-acts-of-liberation-tarot-to-transform-our-world-lane-smith/20322387?ean=9781649632203

Tarot & Politics zine: https://mxlanesmith.com/publications/

Rebel Specters newsletter: https://buttondown.email/rebelspecters

The Rebis tarot magazine: https://linkin.bio/the__rebis

Armed Joy zine: https://eighteeneightytwo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/armed-joy-imposed.pdf

music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY 

shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book:https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

The Arcana in You ezine: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/the-arcana-in-you-ezine

study tarot series:https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series 
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops