Category: Sarah Troop

• Beauty in Decomposition: An Interview With Artist AJ Hawkins

  

  Death & the Maiden co-founder, Sarah Chavez, talks to artist AJ Hawkins about her recent series, The Reclamation, which beautifully examines the decomposition of human bodies and the nutrient cycle through art.

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2017

  Interview, Sarah Troop

  adipocere, Art, blowflies, body farm, cadaver, Corpse, Death, Death Positive, decomposition, entomology, forensics, mushrooms, mycology, painting, Post-Mortem, putrefaction, sally mann, Science, soil

• Best of 2016

  The subject of women and death continued to make frequent headlines this year, as well as issues concerning gender, identity and death, reproductive rights and an examination of our complex and ever-changing relationship to our own mortality. Here’s a recap of what 2016 had to offer from our co-founder Sarah Chavez.

  Death and the Maiden

  03/01/2017

  Sarah Troop

  Abortion, Culture, Death and the Maiden, Death Positive, Feminism, Grief, History, Loss, Science, social justice, Society, Spiritualism

• Death & the Maidens: Why Women Are Working With Death

  Death & the Maiden’s co-founder, Sarah Chavez, delves into the reasons underlying the current interest many women seem to have with death, and the rise of the Death Positive movement. Exploring a question persistently asked and rooted at the very core of Death & the Maiden: Why are so many women currently interested in death and…

  Death and the Maiden

  15/08/2016

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  activist, Beauty, Career, Death, Death and the Maiden, Feminism, Funeral, Gender Roles, social justice, Society, Women

• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  Death & the Maiden’s own Sarah Chavez (Troop) shares the horrifying story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911. An entire nation grieved over the 148 deaths that occurred that day, so easily preventable. Their collective outrage changed U.S. labor laws and led to the adoption of fire…

  Death and the Maiden

  21/03/2016

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Change, Death, Emotion, Experiences, Grief, History, Law, Loss, New York, Society, Women

• Death and the Birth of Feminism 

  Whether you believe the Fox sisters possessed supernatural powers or were masters of deception, one thing is for sure. What began as a rapping on the wall quickly became fame & fortune. Spiritualism was at its height & provided a platform for women to speak out. Death & the Maiden’s Sarah Chavez explains that women became…

  Death and the Maiden

  04/01/2016

  Guest Post, Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  America, Celebrity, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Fox Sisters, Gender, ghosts, History, Mystery, New York, Power, Society, Spiritualism

• The Best Of 2015

  Women and death, particularly the role women are currently playing in the death positive movement and as death professionals made frequent headlines this year. Here’s a recap of what 2015 had to offer from our co-founder Sarah Troop.

  Death and the Maiden

  28/12/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Art, Career, Change, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Funeral, Gender Roles, History, Media, Society, Women

• Monsters

  “Be home when the street lights come on!” Was a common directive during many of our childhoods, as we anxiously ran out into the world to play. However, in my neighborhood and for many of us who lived out our childhoods on the East Side of Los Angeles that directive also came with a sinister…

  Death and the Maiden

  16/11/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Deadmaidens, Death, Fear, Folklore, Gender Roles, ghosts, History, La Llorona, Los Angeles, Mexico, monsters, Murder, Women

• Female Professional Embalmer, 1900

  Miss Katie Smith, daughter of the late Gran W. Smith, the only lady embalmer in the South, has made a long and successful study of the subject of embalming, and today she is recognized as one of the most proficient practicing that art. There has been a growing demand for her services recently, her reputation…

  Death and the Maiden

  29/06/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  1900, Career, Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Egyptians, Embalmer, Embalming, Experiences, Gender Roles, History, Interview, Kentucky, Miss Katie Smith, Skill, Women

• The Rebozo: Fashion, Feminism and Death

  Death & the Maiden’s own Sarah Chavez presents the rebozo. For centuries, broken-hearted mothers have wrapped their lifeless infants in them for burial and covered their faces with it to signify mourning. The use of the rebozo as a shroud was once so common in Mexico, many artisans created them solely for this purpose, whereas today,…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/04/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  Burial Shrouds, Culture, Fashion, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Good Death, Heritage, History, Las Soldaderas, Latin America, Memento Mori, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Motherhood, Mourning, Pregnancy, Rebozo, Textiles