The aim of this newsletter is to share resources, conversations, and mutual aid requests for dying people and their families. We approach death work an anti-racist, anti-capitalist, decolonized, liberation-focused lens.
Hello! and welcome to the Community DeathCare Digest, a liberation minded newsletter about Death and Care. Every two weeks we compile Action Items in the form of requests for death ritual/funeral-related mutual aid and share them with you, our community. We have a request form available if you or someone you know needs support and would like to be included on our list. Beyond Action Items we also include Food for Thought(articles, podcasts, art, books, etc.) that expands upon and nourishes our human relationships with life, death and grief. Finally, we will leave you with Offerings We Love filled with opportunities for education and growth and Simple Pleasures (memes, YouTube videos, etc) that bring us life, joy, laughter, relief and glimmers of hope.
We love to highlight the work of contributors, so please reach out if you have a death/grief related column you’d like to share!
A note on Liberation minded death care and what that means to us:
Caring for people and their loved ones so they can die with dignity is healing work. In a society where we are living in the shadows of colonialism, slavery, mass violence, and capitalism, our focus and attention has been trained to jump from one violent act to the next, under a news cycle and social media that profits from this same time and attention. We are all left in the wake of violence and therefore we must turn our attention to care. We believe that by caring for those who are dying as well as those who continue to live and grieve within these systems we can begin disrupting the ongoing cycle of violence and inter-generational harm.
If the systems that govern us do not care for us, we must create new systems to care for each other. In this way, care becomes an act of liberation.
Thank you for joining us,
Resham
Please remember:
Currently this digest is maintained by two humans, and as such will be an act of love, not of perfection. We rely on the efforts, goodwill, and community of those who believe in this work. Thank you for being here.
