Category: Nuri McBride

• Tubercular Venus: When the Beauty Standard was Dying

  

  If society’s beauty standard dictates a ‘proper’ woman should have pale skin and wear a crinoline that makes it near impossible for her walk through a doorway, chances are, that is a society that believes a woman’s place is in the home. So what does it say about a culture when the height of beauty…

  Death and the Maiden

  16/03/2017

  Nuri McBride

  Art, Beauty, Beauty Standards, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Health, History, Opression, Patriarchal Society, Sex, Social Class, STI, Tubercular Beauty, Victorian, Women

• Strengthen Your Sense of Smell While Contemplating Your Doom

  We live in a culture that rejects scent the same way that it denies the reality of death. Nuri McBride is here to explain that perfume is olfactive art, like visual arts and music it has the power to move, soothe and inspire people. Nuri is creator of ‘Scent the Scene’ an exercise in perfumery, meditation…

  Death and the Maiden

  18/10/2016

  Nuri McBride

  Attrition, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Positive, Death Scent & the Live Girl, Emotion, Experiences, Meditation, Memory, Mindful, Perfume, Scent

• Silent Sisters: Caring for the dead in gendered religious space

  Nuri McBride is a Metaheret, which means washing and ritually preparing the dead in the Jewish traditions, as well as assisting in funeral preparation and bereavement. As a member of  a Chevras you provide kosher body preparation, funeral services, bereavement support, and palliative care, free of charge as a community service. With women outnumbering men in Chevras…

  Death and the Maiden

  18/07/2016

  Nuri McBride

  Bereavement, Body Preparation, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Chevra, Chevra Kadisha, Community, Deadmaidens, Death, Funeral Services, Gender Roles, Grief, History, Jewish, Jewish Burial Society, Jewish Culture, Kosher Burial, Loss, Metaheret, Mikva, Support