Victoria Noe

eBook, ePUB

What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Grieving a friend is hard.

Grieving a friend during a pandemic is a lot harder.

What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic is a powerful and compassionate exploration of friend grief during the COVID-19 epidemic. This book sensitively addresses the unique challenges and emotions faced by people who have experienced the loss of a friend during these uncertain times.

Through personal anecdotes, interviews, and expert insights, Victoria Noe delves into the profound impact of losing a friend and the specific grief journey that ensues. The book acknowledges the unique bond and significance of friendships and explores the complexities of grieving for a friend in a world upended by isolation, physical distancing, and limited opportunities for traditional mourning rituals.

Noe's book also highlights the power of honoring the lives of those friends, offering examples of meaningful tributes and finding solace in shared memories. It encourages readers to embrace the healing power of community, finding comfort in the stories of others who have experienced friend grief during the pandemic.

What Our Friends Left Behind serves as a source of comfort, validation, and hope, reminding readers that they were not alone in the intricate journey of friend grief during these challenging times.

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• Größe: 6.38MB
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Autor

In the spring of 2006, I was deep into my third career as an educational sales rep to Chicago Public Schools (after working in theater and as a fundraiser for arts and AIDS organizations), which allowed me flexibility after our daughter was born. I told my friend Delle Chatman that I had an idea for a book: stories of people who were grieving the death of a friend. She was supportive and enthusiastic, though I'd never written a book before. She was also in remission from ovarian cancer. Six months later, she was dead.

Eventually,I broke up the book into a series of six small ones, which became the Friend Grief series. I assumed when the series finished that my writing career would be over.

I ran into Tracy Baim, publisher of Windy City Times, Chicago's weekly LGBT paper, in the summer of 2011, who asked me to contribute to her "AIDS@30" series. I was skeptical about whether I would even remember much. But as soon as I sat down at the computer, the memories surged along with the emotions: loss, frustration, rage.

That brought me back to the AIDS community, not as a fundraiser but a writer and activist. I joined ACT UP/NY and participated in actions. My essay, "Long Term Survivor", about those of us who lived through the dark, early days of the epidemic, won the 2015 Christopher Hewitt Award.

After listening to a panel presentation by the women of ACT UP/NY in 2014, I realized that the literature of the AIDS epidemic ignored the accomplishments of women. And though some have acknowledged the critical involvement of lesbians, especially in the early years, none had focused on straight women.

In 2019, Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community gave long-overdue recognition to women around the world who have changed the course of hte epidemic, largely in obscurity. And it forced me to tell my own story, too. It has been one of the great joys of my life to introduce these women to the world.

In addition to ACT UP/NY, I'm a member of Authors Guild, Alliance of Independent Authors, and Chicago AIDS Garden steering committee.

As I said, this is my fourth career. Will there be a fifth? Will I write another book? Or both? I promise whatever it is, it won't be boring.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Victoria Noe
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798988240525
• Artikelnr.: 68873858