Comment on It keeps happening
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
For the curious, these are the seven and nine of swords respectively from the Rider-Waite deck, which is one of the most well-known tarot decks. While the meaning of the nine of swords is approximately correct in the meme (anxiety, hopelessness), the seven of swords is a bit more of a stretch — I usually read it as deception or trickery.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Waite-Smith deck. I don’t know why we’re giving credit to the publisher of the deck and erasing the queer woman of color who did the artwork. Oh, wait…
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Ooo, this is the first I’ve heard of this. Tell me more about that.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Pamela Colman Smith, a British artist. Who, I have just learned, was actually not a woman of color. Despite her spending a lot of time in Jamaica, writing books on Jamaican folklore, and even adopting the dress and mannerisms of a Jamaican…she was actually European. Kids these days would call that “problematic”.
However, she never married, and she lived with a female best friend, so I think the odds are very good that she was either a lesbian or asexual.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Thank you for jumping to the defence of a deceased person for a potential disparagement another dead person made based on an intrinsic attribute we cannot confirm.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Colman_Smith
tarotarts.com/pages/rider-waite-smith
It says Waite “commisioned” Smith to draw the cards so she, maybe, got some compensation but nothing about her getting anything from the sales.
Smith was one hell of a woman though.
Hawke@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It seems she was paid but not very well: “a big job for very little cash”
openculture.com/…/meet-the-forgotten-female-artis…