Ariane Temkine is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at EHESS under the supervision of Anne Lafont and is a Non-Tenured Teaching and Research Fellow at Aix-Marseille University. Her research critically evaluates Disney’s animated films, with a focus on the intersection of gender and race. She has also been interested in tarot cards (Marseille, Pixie-Rider-Waite, etc.) and cartomancy for several years. With Daniela Jacob-Pinto, she cowrote Des cartes sans destin: Cartomancie critique, presented at La Tilia in April 2024, which expands on the ethos of tarot.