Yesterday I released Mourning Field Notes out into the world. I put a lot of love and care into creating this zine, and it means so much to watch it find its way to the people who need it.
This zine was inspired by my love of the Jewish ancestral calendar, where each month carries its own wisdom, healing qualities, and ritual gestures.
While my work is rooted in grief and death, it brings me a great deal of joy to contribute to community care. This zine is an offering. A place to sit with what is shifting, what is ending, and what is beginning again.
If this found you, it may be for a reason.
If you would like a copy, you are welcome to DM me.
Grief needs somewhere to go đź–¤
An offering for the queer LA community.
A space to witness and be witnessed in your grief.
Any type of grief is welcome.
Circles last 60–90 minutes.
Limited capacity. RSVP required.
Voted Best Support Group of 2025, Sapphic LA
A Living Funeral Ceremony & Death Salon
Friday, March 20 • 7pm • the WuuM
As we move toward the Spring Equinox, you are invited into a ritual of release and return.
Limited capacity.
I hope to see you there.
xx
A Living Funeral Ceremony & Death Salon
Friday, March 20 • 7pm
at WuuM
As we approach the Spring Equinox, a time of balance, transition, and renewal, join us for a Living Funeral Ceremony followed by a Death Salon.
A Living Funeral Ceremony is an immersive meditative ritual that invites participants to reflect on their mortality in order to reconnect with what truly matters. Through guided visualization and ritual, participants are invited to symbolically release what has run its course and return to life with greater clarity and intention.
In this way, the practice becomes a kind of rebirth, an opportunity to die before you die, so that you may live more fully while you are alive.
The ritual portion lasts approximately 90 minutes. After the ceremony, the space will open into a Death Salon where participants are welcome to reflect quietly or share in conversation with others.
Tea and baked goods from Le Trois Apothecary and The Fool Bakery will be available for purchase during the salon for those who wish to partake.
I hope to see you there.
xx
Kaitlyn
I’m honored to be back at @knowotherfestival this year to facilitate another Living Funeral Ceremony. Last year was filled with reflection, queer joy, and the kind of connection that only happens when we gather together. It was a magical place to hold this work, and I’m grateful to open that space again.
Join us as Spring returns for a Living Funeral Ceremony followed by a Death Salon.
A Living Funeral Ceremony is an immersive meditative experience that encourages participants to face their own mortality. Through engaging in ritual and guidance through a death visualization, participants are invited to “die before you die, to live while you’re alive.”
The ritual portion takes up to 90 minutes. After the ceremony is complete, Kaitlyn will hold space for a Death Salon where participants will be invited to reflect alone or in community. Tea and baked goods from Le Trois Apothecary and The Fool Bakery will be available for purchase during the salon for those who wish to partake.
See you there! xx
here is a peek at Queer Grief Circle’s new home, generously donated by @the.wuum so we can allow all proceeds to go towards mutual aid for our community. this morning a bunch of queers witnessed each other in grief on this giant cozy couch while it poured outside. I am so grateful to be able to hold a small bit of space for folks during these difficult and scary times.
we meet every 3rd Monday at 10am ♥️
🥀 We are living in a very heavy state of the world right now, and @_a_wake invites you to witness and be witnessed in your grief among other queers at their monthly queer grief circle that meets every 3rd Monday in East Hollywood. Swipe for details and head to their bio for more info 🖤
#grief #queersupport #healingcircle #losangeles #grieving
Queer Grief is Political
Many queer folks are grieving in a political climate that is increasingly hostile to our existence.
There is grief in watching our rights being stripped away. In the normalization of cruelty.
This kind of grief is disorienting because it is relentless.
Fascism works by isolating us, exhausting us, numbing us.
Grief is not weakness. It doesn’t need to be solved. It is a bid for connection and community. We need to witness each other so we can understand that what we are feeling in this moment is not imagined.
Gathering in community reminds us we are not alone and our liberation is bound together ♥️
Thank you to Sapphic LA for naming Queer Grief Circle “Best Support Group of 2025”.
This space exists because of the people who continuously show up with their grief and trust it to be witnessed.
Our new home has been confirmed and will be announced in 2026!
Our latest article by guest writer Kaitlyn Pietras explores approaching the quiet and stillness of winter as an opportunity for reflection and ritual.
“Embracing the Season of Dying
It’s December. You step out for a walk and immediately sense something different from the busy world you left behind. The quiet. The stillness. Your nervous system settles. You realize this peace comes from the simple fact that nearly everything is dead. You are walking through a temporary graveyard, a landscape in the midst of necessary dying. Winter strips everything down to its essentials, revealing what we have avoided seeing in ourselves. To live in seasonal attunement we must welcome death.
Death has been given a bad reputation. We are taught to fear it, and yet it is one of the few universal experiences we share as humans. Death is not only a physical ending but also the process of releasing, shedding, and composting old material to allow room for growth. Death can mean allowing what is not meant for us to fall away, even when the space it opens to the unknown feels frightening.
This seasonal act of turning inward is also echoed in Jewish ancestral time. The Jewish calendar guides us toward inner alignment through attunement with the cycles of nature. The month of Tevet begins after the final new moon of 2025. Spiritually, Tevet invites us to descend into the quiet, into the shadows. In Jewish mystical teachings, Tevet is a time to practice bittul, the softening of the self so inner wisdom can emerge. This ritual shedding of ego can only happen when the world is at its most quiet, when we finally have the capacity to listen.”
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