Christopher
Marmolejo
Christopher Marmolejo is a wayward writer, scholar and seer, engaging oracular methods of riot and redemption.
Their pedagogical practice intertwines queer, feminist and diasporic lineages of divination through discursive interventions within various cultural imaginations that revel in magical thinking, creative risk and close listening.
Relevant to their practice of red spirituality is collaborative intertextuality, language, and the ritual regard of aesthetics.
They are the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide To Divinatory Literacy, published by North Atlantic Books.
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Red Tarot has been featured in the University of Denver’s graduate creative program. Christopher has been a key partner with the University of British Columbia’s Tarot For Decolonization initiative, faciliating several workshops at the University on the intersections of tarot, indigeneity, gender and sexuality, and decolonial storytelling. Christopher has lectured and taught taromancy and decolonial divination for institutions and conferences such as New York University, Arizona State Univeristy, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Invisible College, the Philosophical Research Society, the Occult Humanities Conference, the Los Angeles Festival of Tarot and New Orleans Poetry Festival.
Christopher is currently serving as guest-editor for the Rebis, a literary anthology celebrating tarot, art & creative writing, focusing on arcanum XVIII: the Moon, out later this year.
Their practice of red reading shows how a decolonial approach to divination, rooted in queer indigeneity, can unsettle dominant narratives of futurity and enact alternatives grounded in relation, collectivity and the still-possible.
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.
