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sarahcalavera.bsky.social
Chicana. Author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT DEATH 📚 Helping people live & die better at orderofthegooddeath.com, Ask a Mortician, & radicaldeathstudies.com 💀 Death + food, ritual, folklore, horror, film, culture & society 🔸 https://msha.ke/sarahcalavera
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The neighborhood children are outside playing and the eldest (8 years old) is leading them in an “Elon Musk Sucks!” chant while my dog barks along. This is powerful magic

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For Pi Day here’s a bit about the history of funeral pie, served at funeral meals among Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities whatscookingamerica.net/history/pieh... 📷: @thepieous

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If you want to join any of my spring cemetery happenings, in person in Brooklyn and Buffalo to talk trees and grave history, and online to talk symbolism, I have a new newsletter for you mailchi.mp/ab8d89c57e2d...

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someone just asked me about my weekend plans and i

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In today’s research find of the day—when a female embalmer is asked if she’s afraid of the dead, she says no, just snakes and drunk men. (From the Birmingham Post, 1932)

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TOMORROW come learn about the important work of Finding Ceremony with @intersectionist.bsky.social —a descendent-led reparationist process for restoring the lineages of care, reverence, & spiritual memory to the work of caring for their dead. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Where can you find the most viral food trend in China? At a funeral home www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Jewish Burial Society pitcher from Mikulov, Moravia, 1836. Note the beautiful use of negative space. I also love the way these figures are painted, and how the Hebrew letters kind of echo their silhouettes

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🤍 edit of my annual Valentine’s Day watch, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

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Every year I do a Goth Love Stories series for Valentine’s Day, but with everything going on I only have the capacity for a single post—but it’s a good one 💖 This artist created a monument to her & her wife’s marriage for their future burial site in Woodlawn Cemetery www.pride.com/lifestyle/20...

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1/3 CALL TO ACTION What: Help protect Moses Macedonia African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland

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I recently went to a lecture by Vikram Tamboli who founded the Healing & Harming Garden at UCLA, & remembered the Sinister Garden, created by a Kaiser pediatrician in the 70s to educate the public about common household & garden plants that were poisonous & even fatal

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just saw a Tesla truck AND Jojo Siwa so, things are not looking good for me today #LAOmens

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As the Eaton fire raged, employees at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena & neighboring funeral homes banded together, using shovels & drums of water to extinguish hot embers, while others moved quickly to place bodies in vans & move them to safety www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

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Reminded of and crying about the fact that Rev. Budde is also the person who provided Matthew Shepard's family with a safe haven for their son's remains. This is the person these fascists trying to brand themselves as Christians are targeting with hate, right now. www.npr.org/2018/10/26/6....

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What happened when an impromptu band of all-female funeral arrangers went against a tyrannical government that did not represent them, their dead, or their traditions? www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/how-...

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Everything that was dear to Adrián Luna was in a small town in Idaho, and when he was deported, he died trying to find it again www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/u...

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LA FIRE VICTIMS—Cremated remains recovery assistance. If you or anyone you know had to evacuate & leave behind the cremated remains/ashes of someone—this team of volunteer archaeologists can help! Please help spread the word. Info & intake form to request help here: altahf.org

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1/3 CALL TO ACTION What: Help protect Moses Macedonia African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland

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As the Eaton fire raged, employees at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena & neighboring funeral homes banded together, using shovels & drums of water to extinguish hot embers, while others moved quickly to place bodies in vans & move them to safety www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

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1/2 Located in Orkney, an archipelago off the North coast of Scotland, this remarkable yet unusual memorial was created by a couple as a fitting tribute for Betty, a friend who died unexpectedly #BookWormSat

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LA FIRE VICTIMS—Cremated remains recovery assistance. If you or anyone you know had to evacuate & leave behind the cremated remains/ashes of someone—this team of volunteer archaeologists can help! Please help spread the word. Info & intake form to request help here: altahf.org

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Ways to help people displaced by LA wildfires (from someone displaced by the LA wildfires) First, some thoughts. I know from working in death + grief how hard it can be when you feel you can’t help someone who is experiencing a loss.

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Ways to help people displaced by LA wildfires (from someone displaced by the LA wildfires) First, some thoughts. I know from working in death + grief how hard it can be when you feel you can’t help someone who is experiencing a loss.

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