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• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ooo, this is the first I’ve heard of this. Tell me more about that.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨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.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨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.

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨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.

    Smith also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore, edited two magazines, and ran the Green Sheaf Press, a small press focused on women writers.[4]

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨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…

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