Death & the Maiden

An interdisciplinary conference exploring the relationship between women & death: 21st – 24th of July, 2017

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Death has a Voice

For many of us, working with death is an act of resistance. It is our way of reclaiming our space, our bodies, our lives and ourselves – death work and death activism in all its forms is a feminist act.

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New blog post on deadmaidens.com today! . . Everybody Dies! A Coloring Book About Life! by @everybodycolors is a must buy. 🖤 . . This colouring book honors and celebrates soil biology and decomposition, funeral rites from around the world, the legacies of anti-oppression leaders and the complexities of grief and loss. The coloring books are 100 pages of imagery, prose and poetry that challenge the silence of mainstream death culture, and encourage conversation and meditation on mortality. . . #death #deadmaidens #colouringbook #deathpositive @theyellowwallpaper89 creates embroidery inspired by Victorian mourning practices and the fragility of our own mortality. Drawing influence from Post-Mortem Photography and historic funeral customs each piece becomes it’s own beautiful little Memento Mori. #embroideryart #embroidery #mortality #deathart #deathpositive #deathandthemaiden #deadmaidens #mementomori #womenworkingwithdeath “Instead of growing twisted like a gnarled tree inside myself, I am able to dance out my anger and my frustrations. Yes, I have danced about lynchings, protested in dance against Jim Crow and systems which created sharecropping. I have attacked racial prejudices in all forms…” — Pearl Primus, Dance Magazine, November 1968. . . Photograph by Myron Ehrenberg, October 25, 1945, “provided by [press representative] Ivan Black for Café Society.” Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Friends, are you interested in writing for @deadmaidens? Pitch us on deadmaidens@gmail.com 🖤 Our co-founder and Order of the Good Death executive director, @sarah_calavera is back with a new installment of her Great Women in Death History series, that includes some firsts in American death history and an unforgettable Soldadera from the Mexican Revolution. . . There was a time not long ago when the responsibility of “death work” – caring for the dying, washing and preparing the body for burial, making preparations for the funeral – fell to women. With the advent of the medical and funeral industry, these roles were taken over by men who created a business of death, pushing women and their contributions to the side and largely forbidding their involvement in the roles and tasks they once filled. However, there were many women who defied the restrictive roles that society placed upon them, and even sought to redefine them – this series is about them. The unsung female heroes of death. . . Link: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/american-trailblazers-mexican-revolutionaries-great-women-death-history . . Photograph of Maria Zavala, ‘La Destroyer’, 1915 by Agustin Victor Cassola. New post on deadmaidens.com today! . . The Joys of Soul Midwifery by our Friday #deathmaidenconf keynote Mandy Preece including this beautiful artwork by fellow Soul Midwife, @antoniarolls. . . "I sit with you dear mother . Watching your chest rise and fall . I am hyper-aware focused on your breath, alert for any change. . But nothing changes, so I begin, eventually, to settle, . to sit with the ebb and flow of your remaining life force. . I read you prayers, . but mostly I sit in silence, . aware that this is the last of our time, . that you will leave and I will stay. . The hours pass and still I sit: . the observer of your final journey. . When will you be free? . I can do no more than be present for you: . to be the witness to your journey. . I finally sleep next to you. I am so very tired. . You pass into the light; and when I awake my life has changed forever." . . . #deathmaidenconf #deadmaidens #soulmidwives #doula #deathpositive #spiritual #holistic #endoflife #lifecycle
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