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Margaret Rivers

Elder · Appalachian Herbalism

📍 Asheville, NC

"I teach women how to come home to themselves through the wisdom of plants, land, and the grandmothers who came before us."

Grief Healing Roots Appalachia Elder

Career: Former RN, now herbalist

Hobby: Foraging, writing

Survived: Loss of daughter

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Simone Laurent

The Hearth · Writer & Educator

📍 Chicago, IL

"Lost my mother last spring. Adrift. A writer trying to find the words for a grief that doesn't have them yet."

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Career: High school English teacher

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Dolores Vega

Elder · Tejana Folk Art

📍 San Antonio, TX

"My hands remember what my grandmother's hands knew. Art is how identity survives."

Art Heritage Identity Tejana Elder

Career: Artist, former teacher

Hobby: Folk art, cooking

Survived: Immigration, loss

Seeking: To preserve craft

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Ruth Okonkwo

Elder · Textile Weaving

📍 Columbus, OH

"Every cloth tells a story. I am archiving my grandmother's voice before it is fully gone."

Craft Weaving West African Archive

Career: Textile artist

Hobby: Oral history, weaving

Survived: Loss of grandmother

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🎙 Oral History · Audio · West African Tradition

"What my grandmother knew about the patterns": Three recordings

Three recordings of my grandmother explaining the meaning behind each family pattern in our textile tradition. She passed in 2019. These recordings are the last place her voice still exists in the world. Contributed to the Archive so they will never disappear.

Contributed by Ruth Okonkwo · March 2026

Oral History West African Textile Grandmother

📜 Written Wisdom · Remedies

My Mother's Remedies: An Appalachian Medicine Cabinet

Fourteen remedies passed from my mother's hands to mine, for fever, for grief, for the particular exhaustion of being a woman who holds too much.

Margaret Rivers · Elder

Remedies Appalachia Herbalism

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Letters to My Daughter (Public Excerpt)

"I will not always be here to tell you who our people were. So I am writing it down. The full letters are sealed for her, but this excerpt I offer to every daughter whose mother did not leave enough words behind."

Dolores Vega · Elder

Legacy Letters Mother-Daughter

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A Vocabulary for Grief That English Doesn't Have

Words from seventeen languages that name what English can only approximate. Compiled from women in the Grief & Grace Circle over six months.

Grief & Grace Circle · Collective

Grief Language Collective

🎙 Oral History · Food

The Tejana Kitchen: Food as Memory and Survival

Eight recordings of women from South Texas speaking about the recipes that held their families together through immigration, poverty, and loss. Food that tastes like home when home is gone.

Dolores Vega · Elder

Food Immigration Tejana Audio

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