Transgender Activist and Renowned Tarot Expert Rachel Pollack Dies at 77
- Rachel Pollack was a transgender woman and advocate who spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through her work.
- Pollack was an authority on tarot cards and the author of "Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom," a seminal book on tarot.
- She collaborated with Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean to create the "Vertigo Tarot."
- Pollack was a science fiction and fantasy writer who won major awards like the Arthur C. Clarke Award and World Fantasy Award.
- She created DC Comics' first transgender superhero, Kate Godwin/Coagula, in 1993.