free gathering
Creating Spaces for Queer Grief
A live, COMMUNITY CONVERSATION On how we can provide inclusive, compassionate, and empowering spaces For queer grievers
Join us for a free community conversation on Creating Spaces for Queer Grief—a gathering centered on the unique and often overlooked experiences of grieving as a queer person. Together we’ll explore why queer specific spaces matter so deeply, especially in times of loss, and how community and connection can be sources of strength and healing. rief touches every part of who we are, and for queer and trans people, that includes identities that are often invisibilized or invalidated in mainstream support spaces. Without intentional community, grief can compound isolation, leaving people to navigate loss without recognition of their relationships, their families, or their lived realities. Queer-specific grief spaces affirm that all forms of love and loss are valid, and they offer a place where language, pronouns, and identities are honored rather than questioned.
This conversation will also offer guidance on how to begin cultivating inclusive, affirming grief spaces in your own community—because no one should have to grieve alone or unseen.
Co-led by:
jamie thrower & Lauren Carroll
september 19 at 12pm mountain time
held on Zoom
recording available
After Jamie experienced her own personal grief she created a space to tell her story. That space grew and has evolved into the Queer Grief Club aims to provide inclusive, compassionate, and empowering spaces where queer grievers can find solace, support, and build community. By centering queer experiences and addressing the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community, we strive to create a space where vulnerability is celebrated and healing can unfold authentically. Queer Grief Club provides resources, guidance, and a community of peers who understand the intersections of queerness and grief.
Your FACILITATORS
Jamie Thrower
Jamie Thrower (she/they) is a queer death doula, community grief care worker and funeral celebrant living in Portland, OR. Jamie focuses their work on LGBTQ+ advocacy in end of life and grief care and is the founder of Queer Grief Club, an online support and resource space for LGBTQ+ grievers.
Death Doula | End of Life Educator | Community Grief Support
Queer Grief Club www.jamiethrower.com
Lauren Carroll
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives. She lives on an urban farm at the base of a mountain where she tends to her animals, raises her two children, and dances around bonfires on the full moon with friends while listening to Nick Cave.
Queer-specific grief spaces affirm that all forms of love and loss are valid, and they offer a place where language, pronouns, and identities are honored rather than questioned. By gathering in community, we not only create room for healing, but we also resist the erasure of queer grief building networks of care that remind us we are not alone, even in our most tender moments.Recording available for all registrants.
We can't wait to meet you.
LIVE community conversation
september 19 at 12pm mountain time
Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.