ABOUT
Good Grief Commons is a digital space co-created by Indigenous, Black, and racialized youth and young adults to make meaning of what grief teaches us – about loss, love, lands, waters, and each other. Through art, photography, poetry, and sound, we offer our own theorizing on grief and reflect on what it means to mourn in community. This is not a space to fix or tidy grief, but to witness it and share it on our own terms. As a commons, it invites collective care and shared responsibility for how grief is held, honored, and made visible. We invite youth, practitioners, parents, and community members to witness, contribute to, and be held by the stories, practices, and possibilities shared here.
Good GRief Commons
Good Grief Commons was created as part of a doctoral dissertation project. The content shared here reflects the research and collaborative work of Tiffany Hill, youth co-researchers (Black Spruce, Qolati, Aya, Keith, Melanin Monroe, Yam), and young people across Vancouver and Toronto, Canada.
The full dissertation will be publicly available in 2027.
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To learn more about the research team, read their we are from poem.