Christopher
Marmolejo
Christopher Marmolejo, MA, is a brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, and educator. Through divination, they foster a literacy rooted in liberation.
They are the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide To Divinatory Literacy, published by North Atlantic Books.
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Christopher was born and raised in San Bernardino, California, in community with the Serrano people of the Pines, the Yuhaaviatam clan of the San Manuel Nation.
As a trained educator committed to cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility, they work with students around the world to plant and nurture the seeds of a divinatory practice—finely weaving tarot, astrology, and curanderismo with decolonial, queer epistemologies and critical feminist pedagogies.
I frame Tarot as a political praxis of liberatory literacy.
Red light makes each card a prism of poetic, political praxis. The reader unfamiliar with social horror will find their imagination engaged and activated. Tarot makes us literate in the imagery offered in augury, but a red read enacts a divinatory consciousness that is critical, transformative & transgressive.
