Death Struck Where I Was Born, But Never Lived
/Pacinthe Mattar talks about how "shame and guilt move through my veins" when she missed the funerals of her grandmothers and uncles in Death Struck Where I Was Born, But Never Lived.
Read MoreOn Death and Mourning From a Distance
/Adwoa Afful reflects on the passing of her grandmother and great-grandmother in On Death and Mourning From a Distance.
Read MoreNine Nights and Forty Days: Grief, Trinidadian Style
/After 40 years in Toronto, Septembre Anderson's relatives still grieve using Trinidadian mourning rituals. She talks about the death of her uncle in Nine Nights and Forty Days.
Read MoreThe Graveyards of New Orleans
/Renee Sylvestre-Williams toured the mausoleums of New Orleans' Garden District during Halloween. She wandered through the cemetery and came back with a gallery of haunting photos.
Read MoreGod Lives in India
/In God Lives in India, Vivek Shraya writes about love, faith, disillusionment, and the death of his personal God, the multifaith guru Sai Baba.
Read MoreDon't Tell Grandma
/Perhaps it happens in many cultures, but Helen Mo has only seen Asian and South Asian families hide death and illness from older relatives. "With one act, it’s possible to both love and disrespect," she writes in Don't Tell Grandma.
Read MoreIn the House of Crying
/Rawiya Kameir explains the Sudanese ritual of beit el-bikka for In the House of Crying, a dramatic display of grief that first annoyed, then comforted, her.
Read MoreA Way of Death
/In A Way of Death, Heather Li describes why her annual visit to her family graves is actually kind of fun.
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For centuries, community-focused care and ancestral healing knowledge have existed as practices of resistance and freedom for folks of colour.