"For many of us, working with death is an act of resistance. It is our way of reclaiming our space, our bodies, our lives and ourselves – death work and death activism in all its forms is a feminist act."
LATEST
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, a companion book to the first feature-length documentary on the history of folk horror, WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED, from Kier-La Janisse. Sarah contributed a chapter to the book entitled The Cult of Death is a Way of Life: Folk Horror and the Feminine in Mexican Identity.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Funerals and Dying In Absentia: Inspiration and Tips During Covid-19
Burials and Funerals Under Covid-19
DEATH
* The Story of Death is the Story of Women
* Ask a Mortician series scripts: Girl Talk With the Dead | Funeral Foods From Around the World | Death and Disney: Walt’s Morbid Obsessions | Uncle Walt’s Cryogenically Frozen Head | Nobody Ever Dies at Disneyland? | Kitties, Puppies, and Other Signs of Death
*Trans Death Rights Are Human Rights
* Death in the Afternoon Podcast - Season One
* Death and the Maidens: Why Women are Working With Death
* The Rebozo: Fashion, Feminism, and Death
* The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Read Sarah’s article The Story of Death is the Story of Women in the current issue of Yes! Magazine.
* Sigrid Sarda's Waxworks of Death and Desire
* Motherhood on the Battlefield of Death
* Monsters
* Grave Diggers and Body Washers: Great Women in Death History
FOOD AND DEATH
* An Ice Cream Truck at the Funeral
* Happy Birthday, There’s a Corpse in Your Cake!
* Decoration day and Dinner on the Ground
FOLKLORE AND WITCHES
* Halfway to Halloween: Walpurgisnacht is Witches’ Night
* Death and Turnips: How the Celtic Festival of Samhain Became Halloween
BOOKS