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Happy Monday, and happy beginning of March! Since Happy Monday, and happy beginning of March! Since this is a fresh start to the week *and* a new month, we’re wondering: Which skull are you aspiring to be this month? We’re quite taken with 2 and 9. What can we say? We’re ready for gardening weather! Share your skull vibe in the comments! Artwork by @hanecdote . . . . #TalkDeath #DeathPositive #Skulls #Skeleton #IndependentArt #Art #Death
In December, Aimee Stephens’ estate was finally In December, Aimee Stephens’ estate was finally awarded $250,000. The long-awaited settlement was thanks to “a landmark lawsuit that prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule discrimination against transgender workers is a form of unlawful sex bias.” Stephens died only 5 weeks before the Supreme Court’s ruling in her favor. According to NBC News, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had originally accused RG & GR Harris Funeral Homes Inc “of sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for firing Stephens when she told the company's president she planned to transition from male to female.” The Detroit News reports that in the June decision, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote: “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.” "We are sad that Aimee is not here to experience this moment with her wife Donna and grateful for all that Aimee, Donna, and the many trans fighters for justice and their families have done to bring us to this place,” Chase Strangio, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who worked on Stephens' case, said. “As Aimee always said, this fight is about more than just her and it will stretch far beyond this case.” Also, under the terms of the settlement, "the Harris Funeral Home is now required to pay its female employees the same clothing allowance given to men." The amount will "be backdated to September 2012," Pride Source reports. NBC News adds that although Harris provided suits to the men working at the funeral home, the business required "women to buy their own clothing for work." In a quote obtained by The Detroit News, Aimee’s widow, Donna, said: "She did this not just for herself but for everyone’s rights." Quotes and information from NBC News, Pride Source, and The Detroit News. Image by Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images file . . . . #Death #TransgenderRights #FuneralHome #EmployeeRights #DeathPositive #TalkDeath ##Dying #Burial #Cremation
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In the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods In the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods of British history, ‘memento mori’ literature emerged with great popularity. A number of authors published works that were part of something called the Cult of Melancholia. The pieces that comprised this collection focused on matters of mortality, death, and dying. Two especially famous pieces of writing from this time are Sir Thomas Browne’s 'Hydriotaphia, Urn Buriall', and Jeremy Taylor’s 'Holy Living and Holy Dying'. In the Victorian era, literary elegies, or poetic laments for the dead, were also popular forms of memento mori writing. Today writing on death takes many forms. There are countless self-help books for those dealing with grief. There are memoirs from cancer survivors (and those who did not survive). There are books about near-death experiences, books about death and art, and stories from inside the death profession. The list seems to only be getting longer these days (thankfully)! . . . . #DeathPositive #TalkDeath #MementoMori #Death #Dying #Burial #Urn #Literature #DeathWriting #Writing
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