Articles + essays about and inspired by grief and loss

• “9 Reasons It Is Not Crazy To Grieve A Celebrity Death” by Litsa Williams [What’s Your Grief]

• “After my Sister Died, I Became Holey” by Jessica Yaeger [Manifestation Station]

• “Black Women Get Real About Grief” by Kirsten West Savali [Essence]

• “Chinese Cooking Helps Me Connect With My Mother—And Helps Me Prepare to Lose Her” by Nicole Zhu [Electric Literature]

• “Does My Son Know You?” by Jonathan Tjarks [The Ringer]

• “Embracing Grief” by Sobonfu Somé [Sobonfu.com]

• “Every Time You Go Away” by Ruemara [Balloon Juice]

• “Familiar Fruit“ by Sagirah Shahid [Lyricality]

• “‘Grief has the power to pull us from the people we are close to’: How to love someone in their darkest moments” by Alanna Duffield [Cosmopolitan]

• “Grief Is Evidence of Love” by Kellie Carter Jackson [The Atlantic]

• “He Was An Architect: Little Richard and blackqueer grief” by Ashon Crawley [NPR]

• “How to support someone going through grief” [The Waiting Room]

• “Joy As An Act of Resistance: Spotlight on Julia Mallory” [Barrelhouse Mag]

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• “In Ghana, Funerals Are A Party. But My Dad's Couldn't Hold My Grief” by Leonie Owiredu [Harper’s Bazaar]

• “'Left to hold my grief alone.' Grieving platonic love in a culture of romantic domination.” by Sherronda J. Brown [Scalawag Magazine]

• “Life After Death: Remembering the Notorious B.I.G.’s Legendary Funeral Procession” by Miles Marshall Lewis [Complex]

• “Loss Loop” by Tara Campbell [Jellyfish Review]

• “Mourning My Mother with Lemon Cake" by Alexis McCowan [Food & Wine]

• “On Riding the Waves of Grief” by Tonja Renée Stidhum [The Root]

• “Processing Grief Through the Afro-Indigenous Spiritual Practices Hoodoo and Ifa” by Michael-Michelle Pratt [Vogue]

• “Sweet and Sour Christmas: A Recipe” by Tara Campbell [Matter Press]

• “Today blog 16/1/2022” by Deborah Reid [ChefDeborahReid.com]

• “What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky” by Lesley Nneka Arimah [Catapult]

• “On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic” by Jesmyn Ward [Vanity Fair]