A Grave of One’s Own: The Body Politics of Green Burial

Donelle Dreese — Tue, 17 May 2022 20:55:33 +0000

When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own in 1929, she was advocating for women to have a space to write, a space that would allow one’s creative freedom to flourish. In essence, she was also advocating for women to have body autonomy, to have a place to be alone and unseen in the nest of one’s imagination, to curl inward or fill a room with the full embodied presence of one’s artistic capacity. The decomposition of the physical body after death is, in its own right, deeply personal and creative work. Having a grave of one’s own supports […]

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Donelle Dreese – TalkDeath

A Grave of One’s Own: The Body Politics of Green Burial