Steph Cole
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Transgender, Sapphic, socialist, Trekkie! Performer of, and writer of, words in theatre scripts.
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The Emperor's Old Clothes
Hello if you're new here! (Though I seem to be picking up a few regulars, followers and subscribers). This is a series where the unique perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people are turned towards the Tarot cards, to see if we can unlock some extra levels of meaning.
By Steph Cole4 years ago in Pride
"Their Very Own Saint"
My new novel-in-progress begins at the end of May, where a family who trace their roots back to Romani caravans disagree about how best to honour the little lady the Roma count as "Their Very Own Saint" - Sainte Sara-la-Kali, protege of Les Saintes Maries de la Mer - a pair of matriarchs who give their names to a town in the south of France, where Roma and their related Traveller tribes gather in pilgrimage by the sea every year.
By Steph Cole4 years ago in Earth
The Wise Fool
This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the cards in the Tarot from a queer perspective - a word I apply to myself and others with a sense of pride, and not of shame - to add some teaching content into a LGBTQIA+ Tarot group I started running a little while ago.
By Steph Cole4 years ago in Pride
Save the arts, they may save you one day
The hashtags have ceased to trend, but there are passionate voices here in the UK to save the arts industry from the near collapse brought upon it by the pandemic (and the government, but that's another story for another time). There seems little mainstream appreciation for the fact that the arts are a channel through which education, emotional connection, stress relief, and spiritual uplift can all be achieved, sometimes all together.
By Steph Cole5 years ago in Motivation
