How do we stay open-hearted in a crumbling world?
Grief and Liberation explores grief, pilgrimage, ecology, kinship, ancestry, spirituality, and the search for aliveness in fractured times.
IF YOU ARE…
GRIEVING
Find support, words, and practices for navigating loss, and honoring what matters.
SEARCHING FOR WONDER
Essays and pilgrimage writings on beauty, attention, and the sacred in everyday places.
LOVE SPECULATIVE WORLDS
Step into the Underground Dispatch: fiction from beneath the mycelium.
INTERESTED IN ANCESTRY & MEMORY
Unclaimed Ancestors explores memory, disappearance, and our responsability to remember.
SEEKING PRACTICE & GUIDANCE
Workshops, grief support, death doula services, and resources for the journey.
WANT TO GO DEEPER
Behind the scenes notes, works in progress, and ways to support this work.
Featured Essay
The Ones Who Stay
Notes from the Camino on mass tourism, spiritual hunger, emptying towns, what we have lost and what we might still reclaim.
Current Meanderings
How Do We Enter Into Relationship With Our Ancestors?
Exploring memory, inheritance, and the ways that the past lives within us.
About Michelle
Writer. Death Doula. Grief Worker. Cultural Witness.
Guided by ancestry, grief, and the more-than-human word, this queer Puerto Rican storyteller walks between worlds, tending imagination, remembrance, and liberation.
