Dearest Companions of Grief,
I’m honored to have my work included in Grief Studies—a collective zine that emerged from our shared grief studies workshop facilitated by Fariha Róisín last summer.
Grief Studies was shaped by our movement through the stages of grief alongside the stages of decolonization. It holds personal writing, reflections, and art inspired, in large part, by the readings and writings from our class series. And most urgently, it became a community—a space where we exorcised our witnessing through communing, writing, and holding space for our personal griefs.
Together, we held one another as we responded to the wreckage of our collective griefs: ongoing genocides, shared ecocide, war, and the hurt, abuse, and trauma born from all of it.
My contribution is titled: Open Water a poem, and An Hour Is A Sea a drawing
You can learn more and get a copy here
With deep thanks to Fariha, to our zine team and community, and to everyone who shaped this offering—[we/I] can now share it with you.
Hugs,
Opal
