Tending Grief : Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community

We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our grief—deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person’s experience is as unique as the grief itself.

Here, Camille Sapara Barton’s take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately expe- rience unique constellations of loss. From altar practices and sharing circles to nature-based rituals and herbal medi- cines, Tending Grief provides us the tools to help process and metabolize our grief— without bypassing or pushing aside what comes to the fore.

“Camille Sapara Barton is a gift to all of us, because they understand that every single one of us will grieve, and they have given us a way to understand how we can grieve in community and center care in the inevitable transitions of our lives. This is what emergent strategy looks like at the precipice.” —adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism

“Camille Sapara Barton is undoubtedly one of our generation’s luminaries, as this offering makes crystal clear. Camille’s capacity to bring forward an imaginative yet consistently ground- ed and honest perspective about life’s biggest inquiries—love, liberation, and loss—has made them a powerful and piercing voice in the emerging psychedelic ecosystem.” —Ismail Ali, Policy and Advocacy Director at the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)