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For those coming to npub1dh3sj8t750tz7cetx645k8r7x98helf9mw665jjlhw7xn3vudmhq79saec (npub1dh3…saec), there’s an abundance of remarkable tablers, talks, events, fundraisers, and other life-giving offerings. As anarchists, we’re keenly aware that life is sacred—human and nonhuman life—especially because we experience so much loss, and so much of it unnecessary due to this death machine of a social order. It is life-giving, too, to honor our dead and other losses, to remember them as blessings, as love, as part of why we fight so steadfastly for better, other possible worlds.

We often don’t make space, and as something that should always be available regularly in every anarchist space, for grief, which includes everything from rage and sorrow to joy and intimacy—which is to say, wholeness. So as my offering at the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair…

Rebellious Mourning: Grief Circle
Saturday, August 12, 10 am
Field across from @firestormcoop

Due to deadly structures like colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy, among others, communal traditions of “mourning our dead” have largely been killed off. Yet as human cultures have wisely understood for millennia, when we share the fullness of our lives, our sorrows and joys, we lessen the power of the forces that destroy us, while cultivating forms of collective care and social solidarity that alleviate unnecessary suffering and accentuate the inherent worth of life. Cindy Barukh Milstein will offer brief ritual(s) and framing thoughts, but mostly hold space for sharing, hearing, and honoring your stories of loss with care and compassion, in all of their messy-vulnerable beauty. You are not alone.

(photo: DIY grief altar at an anarchist picnic+gathering in a park in Tio’tiake/Montreal, September 2021)

https://acabookfair.noblogs.org/