Tag: Activism

• Drop My Body On The Steps Of The FDA: Death, Queer Activism & Advocacy During the HIV/AIDS Crisis

  

  It turns up in health class and sometimes in history books, but the scope of the AIDS epidemic is far off and fuzzy. Sam Wall takes a close look at the government failings and acts of courage. Unless you read accounts by survivors or queer scholars, the full impact of the crisis is lost. The…

  Death and the Maiden

  16/01/2018

  Guest Post

  ACT UP, Activism, AIDS, Ashes Action, bad death, David Wojnarowicz, Death, Discrimination, Disease, Epidemic, Funeral Services, Government, Politics, Sexuality, Social Change, social justice

• 199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die

  

  Following the release of Loren Rhoads new book, 199 Cemeteries to see before you Die.

  Death and the Maiden

  12/12/2017

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die, Activism, Author, Book, Burial, burial ground, Cemetery, Culture, Experiences, Explorer, Graveyard, History, Interview, Loren Rhoads, Social Change, Travel, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, Writer

• The Privilege of a Good Death

  Who is more likely to access a good death? Who is more likely to face a bad death? While tragic accidents tend to be great equalizers, we cannot make whole a death positive movement without addressing how privilege grants likelier access to a good death, and how oppression can position someone more likely to face…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/11/2016

  Guest Post

  active, Activism, Attitudes, Caitlin Doughty, Deadmaidens, Death Positive, Education, Good Death, Medical, Missing Women, Murder, Police, Power, social justice, Support