Like everything else, the government has privatised loss. The state bargains with death and leaves citizens to bleed while business deals are made with the fallen bodies. CW: Coronavirus, death, communal riots By Rohitha Naraharisetty The long and short of it is that, in this country, in the company of death, I am running out...
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Submitting To Death: What My Grief Is Teaching Me
Embracing the discomforts of grief helped me to stop wrestling with both death and life. Sometimes grief is simply not allowing what is dead to die. This essay discusses death, grief, and mental health, and mentions suicide By Namupa Shivute 2019 was a year of upheaval. Much of what was foundational in my world crashed...
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Slavery in Life, Slavery in Death: Reckoning with the Zombification of Blackness
Like the zombies of Haitian mythology, Breonna Taylor has been resurrected and trivialized, her death turned into an opportunity for glib commodification. By the time I learned about the existence of the New York Times’ documentary The Killing of Breonna Taylor, a few days before it was released, I was already tired. Breonna Taylor had...
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Death, Grief, And The Legacy I Carry On From My Brother Through Queerness
The pain that comes with grief is not necessarily one which will leave, or even ease, but people’s deaths hold power, which we ought to channel in our lives. TW/CW: discussions and mentions of trauma, death, homophobic slurs, queerphobia, transphobia, and death by suicide. By Jon Bellebono On an individual level and a societal one,...
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The Romanticization of Ted Bundy—Or Why You’ve “Never Heard Of A Black Serial Killer”
The reason we don’t hear more about Black serial killers is not because they don’t exist. It’s because their victims are rarely newsworthy enough to get the same amount of coverage as white victims. This essay contains discussion of serial murder and r/pe. Please use discretion. Even the most depraved and gruesome of the white...
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Who is Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ Really For?
Childish Gambino truly made a video for the white voyeurs of Black death. by Jazmine Joyner Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, has become a force to be reckoned within recent years. The Georgia native began his career as a young writer for the popular NBC show “30 Rock”. From there, he went on to a...
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A Brown Woman’s Reflections On Spending Her First Father’s Day Without Her Father
I cannot believe I am going to live another fifty years without my him. What am I going to do without you, Dad? By Roopa Cheema I dedicate this to all the children of immigrants who have lost their fathers. My Dad died seven months ago and I am devastated. This is my first Father’s...
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Self-Care Sunday: Processing Grief
This weekend, Oakland lost a tremendous number of incredible young folks in a tragic warehouse fire of epic proportions. This week, we grieve deeply with you, as many of us at Wear Your Voice call Oakland our home, too, and have lived communally in similar structures, as well as sharing community and friends with those...
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Should We Feel Empathy for a Mother Whose Neglect Killed Her Baby?
by Kristance Harlow In August, 62-year-old Kathleen Steele was arrested for the death of her infant child, who was killed by the hands of Steele’s 6-year-old son. Steele left her three children in the car, aged 13 days, 3 years and 6 years. According to reports, Steele left her kids in a parked car with...
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Death Isn’t a Blessing — You’re Just Ableist
I was looking at my Facebook feed at 5 in the morning — craving death and also cupcake pancakes from IHOP. That’s the thing about depression: my sleeping patterns have been out of control lately, making me wake up at weird hours. On the feed, I read an article from xoJane titled, “My Former Friend’s...