The Black
Menagerie
78 cards. Five creatures. Draw one. See what shifts.
Tarot structure. Scenario thinking. Perspective-taking. A card-based futures literacy practice for anyone trying to navigate what is coming and who they need to become to meet it.
Meet the Black Menagerie
Sardar & Sweeney (2016) gave us the Menagerie of Postnormal Potentialities.
The Black Menagerie extends it with a decolonial feminist lens and puts it in your hands.
Three creatures became five.
Postnormal futures scholarship became a game you can play.
Each creature holds a different relationship with uncertainty, emergence, and what wants to be born.
You will recognize yourself in them.
You will grow into the others.
Black Swan
What change is coming that we have not named yet?
Black Elephant
What do we all know but have not spoken aloud?
Black Jellyfish
What are we feeling in our bodies about what is next?
Black Marsh Turtle
What do we need to slow down with? Where is rest calling?
Black Sheep
What playful disruption wants to emerge?
Which archetype can help you meet this moment?
Play it live · July 23 →Think Cards for Humanity
The original deck. Futures signals, provocations, and navigational questions for anyone trying to think more creatively, clearly, and courageously about what is coming and what to do about it.
Educator Activity Deck
Adapted for classroom and staffroom use. The same five archetypes, designed for facilitation in educational contexts. Built alongside Flip the Script.
Already in the Room
The Black Menagerie debuted at the 2025 International Healing-Centered Education Conference. It is a navigational lens inside every FLIP cohort and Sandbox Session. The card game is not yet in your hands, but the creatures are already in the room.
Come meet them in practice.
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