Tag: Female Identity

• Little Miss Funeral

  Lauren LeRoy is a funeral director from New York State. Entering mortuary school at nineteen, she had no idea what she was in for. Lauren reflects on her experiences in a male dominated industry and on why her job is so important. This beautiful dedication to her Grandfather’s memory takes us back to a snowy…

  Death and the Maiden

  19/09/2016

  Guest Post

  Care, Career, Change, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Experiences, Female, Female Identity, Funeral, Funeral Director, Funeral Home, Funeral Industry, Gender Roles, Grief, Tradition

• The Light Witch

  Photographer Courtney Brooke creates a haunting visual poetry rich in the feminine ties to nature & spirituality. Her images capture a beautifully bleak moment through stunning landscape in a dream like world. With influences such as witchcraft, the romantics, mother earth and death, Brooke explores what it is to exist in a human form.

  Death and the Maiden

  07/03/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Beauty, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Dying, Experiences, Female, Female Identity, Humanity, Life, Photography, Romance, Spirituality, The Light Witch, Time, Visual

• Rest In Pieces

  To celebrate the paperback release of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, author Bess Lovejoy is giving away a signed copy of her book. Rest in Pieces catalogs stories from the age of antiquity to today, tracing the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death and connecting the lives of the famous deceased…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/02/2016

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Bess Lovejoy, Book, Burial, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Embalming, Eva Peron, Evita, Famous Corpses, Female Identity, Gender Roles, History, Lady of Argentina, Rest In Pieces, Ritual, Writer

• Midwives, Layers-Out, and Lady Pole

  Patricia Lundy explores the relationship between women and death by reflecting on two books. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Caitlin Doughty’s memoir on her experience (past and current) in the death industry and Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, with specific focus on Lady Pole. In this post Patricia entertains the…

  Death and the Maiden

  31/08/2015

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Birth, Change, Child Birth, Corpse, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Empowerment, Fear of Dying, Female Identity, Gender Roles, History, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Lady Pole, Life Cycle, Memoir, Undertaker, Undertaking LA, Women