Curiosa Cards
The Curiosa Cards are here to give you insight, reflection, and affirmation about any relationship you are building with a co-lead(s). This can be at any level - whether you are leading an organisation or collective, or working with others on a program or project.
The deck is a curation of different oracles from our lives, collected into 6 sets
Curios
The heart of the deck, and inspired by the Major Arcana in the Tarot - these are symbols and objects that present questions, inspirations, and challenges.
Botanica
Our relationships with plants could be as old as our relationships with each other. There is so much that we can learn and collectively remember from them.
Essences
This set emerges from the understanding that our senses convey meaning to our bodies and brains in different ways. They focus especially on the sense of taste, flavours, and textures.
Familiars
We share the world with animals. Their ways of being can be both utterly different and unsurprisingly familiar. What can we learn from them?
Terra
Different places can shape us, and we might shape them in turn. This set is of real-life places, natural and human-made, that might affect the conditions for change, decision-making, collaboration and organising.
Luna
This is a bonus set of just four cards of moon phases. We envision them being drawn alongside other cards to bring another layer of understanding or a different perspective.
Welcome to our
‘coleadershop’
This is a community marketplace where you can do three things with the Curiosa Cards:
Purchase a box for yourself
Request a free box if you are an activist with limited resources
Gift a box to others if you have resources to share
We also hope to offer the Cards in ‘pop up shops’ at different feminist and leadership events around the world, as well as in more permanent storefronts.
We have developed a shipping policy that asks those in the Global North to pay the full shipping costs, meanwhile we are offering a subsidized flat shipping rate for those in the Global South.
We produced these boxes in a small batch order, and will produce more if needed. This is our first time selling products so please be patient with us!
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Ask for a box
Leadership resources are often less accessible for activists working in grassroots collectives, organisations and movements with smaller budgets. We want to support co-leadership everywhere and ensure that the cost of a box are not a hindrance to accessing your Curiosa Cards.
We are offering 50 boxes for free for activists, prioritising people and organisations in the Global South / Global Majority. Once those are fulfilled, we will announce our next batch of free boxes.
Let us know if you’d like a box because it would further your leadership and activism, and are not able to cover the costs of the box. Please fill in the form.
The Curiosa Cards have been co-created and produced by feminist artists, tarot readers, organisers, dreamers, and allies in more than 10 countries across the world, from Brazil, to Kenya, from Croatia to Pakistan.
CONCEPT CREATORS
Amanda Mercedes Gigler, Devi Leiper O'Malley & Ruby Johnson
ARTISTIC PRODUCTION
Devi Leiper O'Malley, Shreya Gupta & Ruby Johnson
LAYOUT AND DESIGN
Shreya Gupta
LOGISTICS AND SHIPPING
Charulatha Dasappa
PROMOTION
Tshegofatso Senne & Laura Vergara
ILLUSTRATIONS
Hafsa Ashfaque, Pakistan
Iva Dukic, Croatia
Nzilani, Kenya
Sachiko Kobayashi, Peru
Shreya Gupta, India
Mavi Morais, Brazil
THANK YOU to Wellspring Philanthropic Fund for believing and supporting this work over the last few years. We are deeply grateful for this partnership.
Thank you also to all the support from friends, allies, and family who have helped courier boxes far and wide.
