Brown Girl Tarot™ Creation
Hello World!
My name is Fontaine Felisha Foxworth.
I am a Black, female, Brooklyn College B.A Degree holding Filmmaker, Humanist, Creative & budding Entrepreneur from Brooklyn, NY. I'm here to fulfill my role in this life as a Lightworker - sharing light, love, & laughter to anyone the universe leads me to. I'm a dynamic, go getter, with a strong desire to give back to the world- one person at a time.
I started a lifestyle brand company called Brown Girl - Incorporated, with a mission to uplift and empower marginalized women of color, whilst emphasizing the importance of self love, self expression, and spirituality to all people. 
I'm rasing money to produce, Brown Girl Tarot™, the world’s very first, non-illustrated classic photographed tarot card deck entirely inspired by WOC and re-imagined through the eyes and spirit of a melanated woman, on her journey to her most high(er) self. BGT celebrates and embraces the beauty and diversity of brown and black women, as every card is art directed to emphasize the core, sacred messages of tarot- with a modern brown girl spin. The deck exclusively features WOC + one adorable brown baby girl!
Because of the conditioning of black and brown communities, specifically in the urban inner cities of the US, many of us have been led to believe that Tarot is a bad thing, and something we should stay away from. It's similar to the caricaturization of Voodoo in fictionalized Hollywood films for theatrical entertainment and capitalization. I would like to reverse this way of thinking, and make Tarot more accessible to the people of color to whom it's power potential might be innately blocked. We live in a time where people, (especially WOC) are drawing closer to spirituality, groundedness, and the search for something higher.
I hope to help people reach a higher awareness of themselves by using a tarot deck that reflects their likeness and make Tarot more approachable by clearing the misconception of it, and making it more modernized.
Card Front
The BGT deck will include 78, 3.5 X 5" artfully designed photographed, 350 GSM, Satin finish cards, including all suits of the Major and Minor Arcana. Also offered is a soft covered - full color book of card translation interpretations, authored by myself, and short biographies of each model that is photographed as well as sponsors credits. The Decks will come boxed with a silk Custom Brown girl pouch.
Signature BGT Decks will be hand customized with brown and black velvet backing.
UPDATE: We've Shot the First Day of BGT!
The Cards...So Far:
Major Arcana
Minor Arcana
Though I am saving money by doing all of the administrative organizing, websites & social media, artistic graphic designing, compositing & retouching of BGT Photographs - self publishing Tarot Cards can get pretty expensive! BGT is the first, all female, non- illustrated, photographed & melanated deck in the world. There must be a professional photographer in both NY and NOLA, skilled MUA's, studio rentals, set design, props, wardrobe, food, and the list goes on.
DIY Throne
This throne started out as a hallway coat rack! I am doing my best to DIY this project to the best of my ability, but I need help! 
Please see the budget allocations below.
BUDGET BREAKDOWN
Photography & Studio Rental in NY 2nd Day Shoot
$550- Photography by Brad Ogbonna
MUA $200
WARDROBE: $300
Set and Art Direction $400
Food and Beverage for Models: $100
Gifts for Models: $175
Transportation $80
Card and Book Printing, Taxes, Shipping Fees + Custom Boxing and Velvet Materials for Signiture BGT Decks:
Est. $10,000 (Depending on printing company and quantity) *See Link
Printing and Design is crazy expensive! Please check out some other wildly sucessful tarot card production crowdfunding campaigns and see how much they've allocated for printing related costs. Links below.
Dust II Onyx
78 Tarot Carnival
Our Tarot
Day 1 of Brown Girl Tarot™ was shot on May, 7th 2017. It was a success! We got alot done! Day 2 of shooting is slated for the end of June 2017.
This project means the world to me. I am truly passionate about this project, as we will be simultaneously carving a space for WOC in an arena that has been historically barred from our cultures. I have never felt more divinely inspired to do something, as I feel this idea came directly from source!
Discovering tarot has been a life-saving divinatory tool for me, and to be used as a vessel to bringing something in the world for the spiritual betterment of brown and black woman, + people of color in general, is everything to me. I am overwhelmed with joy, spirit, and love!
The last thing I want to do, is get this deck published through a company, and risk the dilution of this divine mission - as creative and spiritual control would be taken away from me. We for far too long have had our essence and light diminished in this systemic paradigm of oppression and capitalism, and that is something I wish to avoid at all costs. That is why this deck MUST be self published.
I would be so grateful for the help of anyone who wants to see this project come into fruition. Please check out the perks for your appreciated donations.
Thank you...from the bottom, middle and top of my heart!
Sincerely,
Fontaine F. Foxworth
BGT Hashtags
#BrownGirlInc
#BrownGirlTarot™
#BrownGirlsof BrownGirlTarot
#Helpfundabrowngirltarotcarddeck
@Melanade_Stand IG
@Findingfontaine Twitter
@BrownGirlInc on Facebook
Personal IG @Famoustaine
