Facilitated by Dr Melissa Delizia, this is a space with the purpose of building connection, skill, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people.
Participants will be led through a short meditation/reiki offering to ground and center in the space, followed by some intentional and prompted writing time, where we'll pick a source of grief, or grief itself, and write letters. There will be optional time for sharing about the experience itself or what you've written and some additional prompts for continued writing practice. Participants are also invited to submit completed letters to a queer grief zine for publication.
Melissa Delizia, MSW, LSW, DSW (she/they) is a writer, witch, social worker, educator, death doula, and Reiki Master Teacher whose work lives at the intersection of sacred care, social justice, and transformative education. Their practice centers queer and transgender experiences of death, dying, grief, and ritual, with a deep commitment to equitable, accessible, and community-rooted death care.
Melissa teaches social work courses focused on social justice, human rights, and death and dying, and is an educator with La Mort, where she teaches classes focused on death work, queer and trans grief experiences, writing, and energy work. Across their teaching, writing, and facilitation, Melissa is especially interested in how community writing can cultivate ritual, remembrance, and belonging. Their work invites participants to slow down, tell the truths we are often taught to hide, and imagine new ways of holding grief, love, identity, and loss—together.
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