RADICAL LOSS BLOG
Grieve the 2024 Elections Like You Love the World
On November 6, 2024, Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency for the second time in 8 years, one of very few presidents to win a non-consecutive second term. It not only broke my heart, Trump’s ascendency back into the executive office unanchored progressive and Left strategy and fractured multi-racial solidarity. The economic, political and social conditions – and the deliberate dirty tactics – that led to extreme levels of polarization, voter disenfranchisement, and one of the most depressed voter turnouts
Grief is the Medicine
In this powerful episode, Prentis Hemphill is joined by transformative grief activist, movement strategist, writer, Malkia Devich Cyril. Malkia shares stories and wisdom from their personal experience of loss, the possibility that emerges when we attend to our grief, and their insight about how we choose to grieve can determine how we can change the world.
Murmurations: There Will Be Living, After All
Originally Published in YES! Magazine
Since Oct. 7, 2023, I’ve spent my nights scrolling through videos of dead Palestinian children, etched in Instagram and backed by blue light. I scroll because as much as I cannot bear the gruesome brutality of missing infant arms, bloody 5-year-olds screaming for their mother, grandfathers on their knees holding their dead child in one arm and dead grandchild in the other—I also cannot bear to turn away.
Book Bans, Grief and Love: What do these have to do with social movements?
Can joy exist inside grief? We usually get two options in grief - lost in sorrow, or “all healed” and back to normal. But that’s just not how it works in the real world. On this week’s episode, digital activist, writer, and speaker Malkia Devich-Cyril explores the full range of emotions that come with grief. Sadness is real! But so is everything else: joy, humor, regret, love, and even (especially) a sense of belonging.
Loss Runs Like a River Through My Life
On grief’s unequal racial burden, and the Internet as a vehicle to negotiate survival and turn collective grief into collective action.