PAUSE
- Los Angeles, California
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I am here to reimagine...
how to enhance the end-of-life and grief experience for People of Color.
My Story
The mission of PAUSE is to create spaces that produce safe, culturally-specific, and expert-informed grief and end of life resources serving Communities of Color. Regardless of our race, gender, religion, location, and privilege - dying is not an option. But how we access safe, culturally-sensitive support and care is.
No matter who you are, death and loss are universal and an inevitable part of ...
The mission of PAUSE is to create spaces that produce safe, culturally-specific, and expert-informed grief and end of life resources serving Communities of Color. Regardless of our race, gender, religion, location, and privilege - dying is not an option. But how we access safe, culturally-sensitive support and care is.
No matter who you are, death and loss are universal and an inevitable part of life. However, the rise of social unrest and COVID-19 have highlighted a key part of dying that we haven’t acknowledged widely before now: there is inequity in the way we die.
Generalized grief resources are not centered, specific, or thoughtful enough to be useful for people in communities experiencing death due to racially-motivated violence or diseases prevalent in underserved communities. This is a critical gap that must be addressed.
The mission of PAUSE is to create spaces that produce safe, culturally-specific, and expert-informed grief and end of life resources serving Communities of Color. Regardless of our race, gender, religion, location, and privilege - dying is not an option. But how we access safe, culturally-sensitive support and care is.
No matter who you are, death and loss are universal and an inevitable part of life. However, the rise of social unrest and COVID-19 have highlighted a key part of dying that we haven’t acknowledged widely before now: there is inequity in the way we die.
Generalized grief resources are not centered, specific, or thoughtful enough to be useful for people in communities experiencing death due to racially-motivated violence or diseases prevalent in underserved communities. This is a critical gap that must be addressed.
Previous Reimagine events
The Dinner Party Grief Camp, Gone Digital
May 20, 2023
Grief at the Table: Holiday Dialogue from BIPOC Grief Guides
December 14, 2022
Motherless Mother's Day: Yin yoga with Matt Caza
May 10, 2020
Motherless Mother's Day: Learn to vogue workshop
May 10, 2020
Motherless Mother's Day: Dinner w/The Dinner Party
May 10, 2020
Motherless Mother's Day: Yoga for grief with Ken Breniman
May 10, 2020