From grief quests to altar-making, to dinner parties to Dungeons & Dragons, Renegade Grief is a profound and vulnerable exploration of care practices and rituals that empower grievers in a culture that expects us to simply "give it time".
So, you've lost someone. At first, there is an outpour of support and phone calls and care packages. But after the services are done and the phone stops ringing, there is a quiet in the air and an expectation to get on with your life as previously planned. But death has a way of making all plans go out the window. Renegade Grief offers the support in this next stage of grieving - when you feel isolated in your loss and are figuring out how to navigate it.
Shaped by her own experience with the death of her father and her time co-founding The Dinner Party, a leading peer-support organization for people who?ve experienced a major loss, Carla Fernandez pushes back on the death-denying culture we live in. For too long, grief has been treated as something to be gotten over as soon as possible. But Carla has witnessed a different side of the story. Grieving a significant loss is hardcore, hardly something to be swept under the rug, but an experience to be held with respect, a creative spirit, and with friends.
