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.
COVID, Body Image, and Tisha B’Av: How I Watched the Olympics with Exercise Intolerance
Tag: Mourning
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
I Know Nothing About Tisha B’av
Rebecca S’manga Frank
Tisha B’av is a holiday about mourning. I often feel like I’m in a perpetual state of mourning.
Today I Will Eat Ashes
Megan J. Smith
Connection destroyed at the expense of productivity, culture at the expense of assimilation.
What a Literary Left-Wing Legend Left Behind
Ellen Gruber Garvey
In Frances Goldin’s apartment, we found a powerful sign: “I Adore My Lesbian Daughters.”
Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
Imani Romney Rosa Chapman
A rewriting of Unetaneh Tokef in honor of the Black Lives that have been lost to racist violence.
Mourning During a Period of Self-Isolation
Rachel Fadem
My online college class was interrupted with three missed calls from my father, two from my mother, and a supplemental set of urgent texts. I knew without calling back that my grandmother had passed.