Meichen Waxer
In “I Will Relate to You” at FENTSTER, Meichen Waxer looks to an inherited box of family ephemera and community stories to stitch together the history of Jewish life in northern Ontario.
I Will Relate
Tag: grief
A Memoir That’s a Cry for Housing Justice
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Jennifer Baum talks to Lilith about growing up on the Upper West Side when housing was a human right.
Finding Myself in a Memoir About Someone Else
Shayna Goodman
Trauma does not exist in a vacuum — it’s always layered.
Awakening to the Other: Behind the Shofar’s Blast
Dani Rader
Pushing the limits of our empathy is central to the holy work of this season.
Chrysanthemums
Gabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer
I dipped a slice of green apple lightly into honey, but the metallic aftertaste of chemo in my mouth turned its sweetness bitter.
Hybrid
Karen Paul
How do we reconcile the disparate pieces of our genetic whorl with the legacy of our lineage?
COVID, Body Image, and Tisha B’Av: How I Watched the Olympics with Exercise Intolerance
Mariah Guevin
It felt different to watch The Olympics this year. It’s not only a reminder of the incredible variety of the human body, but of its fragility.
Writing Grief & Heartache
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Whether or not you’re grieving or want to write directly about grief, this workshop will help you use writing to work through the loss and longing that’s a part of human life. Let it all out!
Our Most Read Stories of 2023
Lilith Staff
These pieces reflect this heartbreaking year of violence and loss. Two abiding themes are grief and hope
On Grief
Esther Jay
“Literal heartache accompanies the loss of someone you love…the phantom pain of a severed limb.”