grief

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• SOURCE: Jewish Currents
  3/14/2023
  

  The History and Politics of the Right to Grieve

  by Erik Baker

  Grief isn't a personal psychological and emotional process; we experience it through the demands a capitalist economy makes on our time, energy and attention. It's time to make bereavement a matter of right, instead of a favor doled out at the whim of your boss. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/23/2022
  

  COVID Shows the US as a Country Kept from Grieving

  Historians Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams have edited a new collection of essays putting the pandemic in historical perspective, with contributors showing how the pandemic robbed us of both life and time. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/20/2021
  

  Grief Is Evidence of Love

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  The resurgence of the pandemic is an opportunity to reflect on the late theorist and public intellectual bell hooks, who "gave me... the language to understand grieving and healing as radical, communal acts."

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• 1/26/20
  

  Modeling Grief: the Death of Children in Historical Perspective

  by Maria E. Doerfler

  As students of the history of emotions have argued, even the deepest and most primal feelings require models for experiencing one's own suffering and for responding appropriately to others’. The relative lack of such models in contemporary American society contrasts sharply with other eras' approach to voicing bereavement.