Grief Studies
Next Session: March 1st to April 19th
I’ve been a grief and death worker for a few years now, and much of this work has been about the quiet work, work behind the scenes, work that requires patience and gratitude despite the strenuous impact death and grief have on one’s body ecosystem.
Of course, our grief is in overdrive right now, and what it’s asking us to do is to be with it, to sit with it, to take time to honor everything we are witnessing, experiencing, and reckoning with in this current moment. To release it and sublimate it into revolutionary action and work. I believe this time is asking us to rise to meet it. To change, to become emboldened to speak loudly and resist with all our might. This is the power of words, of language. This is why I teach: I believe in the power of collectivity, self-liberation, and revolutionary action.
This Grief Studies is the first of the year and will span over eight weeks — from March 1st to April 19th — as we spend time sitting with the works of poets and writers like Billy Ray Belcourt, Arcelis Girmay and Noor Hindi. Through this tending, each week we will delve into a Grief Stage, alongside a Decolonization stage, as we process our complex emotions on the page. Each class, we will have a chance to share and speak our feelings out into the world, to be heard, and to heal. This is a deeply transformative class, but it also requires attention and intention.
This workshop is for anyone who wants to participate in something that will push them past the stagnation of sadness and sublimate that energy towards liberation.
More information:
{There is limited space available}
***FULL SCHOLARSHIPS ARE CLOSED***
When is the class: We will meet for 8 weeks every Sunday from March 1st to April 19th
From: 12 am - 3 pm EST/ 5 - 8 pm GMT
Where: Over Zoom (I’ll send a link)
Will this be recorded? Yes.
How much is it?
It’s $650 for the 8 weeks
There’s a sliding scale rate of $500 for Black, Indigenous, and Palestinian folks, as well as working-class and disabled folks and CSA survivors. I know I also have a lot of readers in the Global South. If you ever want to take a class, please reach out, and I will try to figure something out.
There are a few partial scholarships
There are 5 full scholarship spaces. If interested, please let me know why you want to take this class & why you’d like/need a scholarship.
I also create a specific payment plan to meet your needs
The workshops I teach are a place of care and radicality.
I prioritize the voices that are silenced in this everyday white supremacist, Zionist, ableist, anti-Black, Islamophobic, anti-Arab/Palestinian, anti Semitic, transphobic, queerphobic world and so these workshops are an attempt to create a space where we can acknowledge that these systems of oppression exist, and understand that it’s our responsibility to unlearn these things, especially when (and while) we are in community. If you are a privileged-bodied person, please move with that understanding in this space. Humility is required here.
I don’t tolerate harmful language; at the same time, I endeavor to create a space of accountability and witnessing. This is hard work; grief work requires ego work. If you are willing to do this work and are hungry to be in space with others who want to do this work, please reach out. It will test you, it might even push at certain limitations and boundaries… grief work is very uncomfortable work, but I’m realizing it’s some of the most significant work you can do right now…
If all this sounds interesting and you feel ready, email me at mofhasan@gmail.com
Grief is the way to transformation ~
sending love, Fariha