Tag: Funeral Services

• 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

• 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