Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On MAiD

This post is the first in a series that I am calling “Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday)”. For on many Thursdays henceforth, I will post a variously provocative, memorable, unforgettable, edgy, etc. passage or sentence (or maybe just a word) that I read somewhere–whether in an article or book, on social media […]

CFP: Death Matters, Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings, Karlstad University and Linköping University, Nov. 4-5, 2019 (deadline: Jun. 30, 2019)

The First International Queer Death Studies Conference: “Death Matters, Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings” aims to create an arena for critical discussion of death, dying and mourning that goes beyond the dual approach to death – human death in particular – that is common within Western cultural frameworks of Christian tradition or secular biomedical perspectives. […]