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Rachel Pollack
American science fiction author, comic book writer
1945 – 2023aged 77
Won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Unquenchable Fire and the World Fantasy Award for Godmother Night, and became one of the most cited authorities on tarot with her 1980 book 78 Degrees of Wisdom. Writing Doom Patrol for DC's Vertigo line in the 1990s, she introduced Coagula, one of the first transgender superheroes in mainstream comics, and spent her career writing openly about trans experience going back to a 1972 manifesto for the UK Gay Liberation Front.