Urban Lament: Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection together Hold Everything Dear is a

Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour

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The scientist’s research demonstrates the “gender fluidity” of a non-human species

which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at fifteen

Urban Lament: Collective Expressions of Pain, Rage, and Affection together Hold Everything Dear is aLamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more than human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to life and death, rural and urban. After all, amidst ongoing processes of