Dec 10, 2024 | Community, Family, Grief
The holidays can be a difficult time for many people, for many reasons. There are the expectations — to participate fully, to spend profligately, to performatively have a good time. But the holidays can also be a wonderful, emotionally fulfilling period of quality...
Nov 12, 2024 | Advocacy, Appropriations, Federal Government, Grief
With Evermore’s support and encouragement, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, directing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to produce a report on the need for bereavement and grief services in the United States. Last week,...
Oct 27, 2024 | Family, Grief
By Nora Biette-Timons In November 2021, Viennia Lopes Booth went to visit her dad for the first time in a couple of months. When he opened the door, she was “shocked,” she shared during a death care conference in September. “I hadn’t seen him in two months, and...
Sep 13, 2024 | Community, Family, Grief
By Nora Biette-Timons Earlier this summer, throughout the month of June, we celebrated the joy of queerness, the joy of embracing one’s authentic self and sexuality. We hold this love and delight in our hearts throughout the year—but we also remember that public Pride...
May 14, 2024 | Advocacy, Community, Grief
Advancing Bereavement Leave for All Students in Higher Education Each year, over 4 million students in higher education are socially and academically impacted by bereavement Losing a loved one at any juncture can alter the course of a life; navigating grief is a...
Apr 29, 2024 | Family, Grief
Who Owns Our Stories? The Fever Pitch and the Harm of True Crime By Nora Biette-Timmons There doesn’t appear to be one singular moment when America went true-crime crazy. In the 1990s and early 2000s, tabloids and popular magazines published what they...
