This week we bring you something a little different with the help of special guest, artist and creative grief guide Gabriela Georges, founder of The Grief Cocoon.

We chatted to Gabriela about creating brave and creative spaces to process grief, and the many ways as people of colour we mourn within our communities and beyond. We shared our different grief practices, and Gabriela helped us put words to difficult feelings through conversation and poetry.

We hope this brings some comfort and resource to our communities, but also recognise this is a deeply challenging time. We've put together some resources of support, centring the experiences of People of Colour, First Nations and LGBTQIA+ groups. Love and solidarity to everyone grieving today and everyday.
Qlife 1800 184 527 // QLife provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships
BeyondBlue 1300 22 4636 // 24/7 mental health support via phone. Limited hours webchat available 1pm-12am
LGBTIQA+ Support After Suicide bereavement groups by Switchboard // A free program for LGBTIQA+ people who have been bereaved through suicide
Our Directory // Connecting Mob, Māori & BIPOC with mental health and wellbeing support 

This episode was hosted by Tanya Ali and Shareeka Helaluddin, with special guest Gabriela Georges. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin. Cover image: some wild flowers in alpine grass captured on Ngarigo country. 

This week we bring you something a little different with the help of special guest, artist and creative grief guide Gabriela Georges, founder of <a href="https://thegriefcocoon.com/">The Grief Cocoon</a>.
We chatted to Gabriela about creating brave and creative spaces to process grief, and the many ways as people of colour we mourn within our communities and beyond. We shared our different grief practices, and Gabriela helped us put words to difficult feelings through conversation and poetry.
We hope this brings some comfort and resource to our communities, but also recognise this is a deeply challenging time. We've put together some resources of support, centring the experiences of People of Colour, First Nations and LGBTQIA+ groups. Love and solidarity to everyone grieving today and everyday.
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<li><a href="https://qlife.org.au/">Qlife</a> 1800 184 527 // QLife provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships</li>
<li><a href="https://www.beyondblue.org.au/">BeyondBlue</a> 1300 22 4636 // 24/7 mental health support via phone. Limited hours webchat available 1pm-12am</li>
<li><a href="https://www.switchboard.org.au/lgbtiqa-bereavement-groups">LGBTIQA+ Support After Suicide bereavement groups by Switchboard</a> // A free program for LGBTIQA+ people who have been bereaved through suicide</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pwk5duhfXl6MUUhsuXM6mB6wfeTsXfsusRdPH-xO4TE/edit#gid=1312969338">Our Directory</a> // Connecting Mob, Māori &amp; BIPOC with mental health and wellbeing support&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
This episode was hosted by Tanya Ali and Shareeka Helaluddin, with special guest Gabriela Georges. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin. Cover image: some wild flowers in alpine grass captured on Ngarigo country.&nbsp;

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Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. With a weekly show and podcast of in-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events. 
♬ Listen back to <a href="http://fbiradio.com/podcast/racematters/">all our podcast episodes</a> ♬ Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/race_matters/">I</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/race_matters/">nstagram</a> ♬
⋆⁺₊✧. Race Matters comes together with deep gratitude to [A-Z] Alicia Zhao, Joannie Lee, Nathan Mudyi Sentance, Samantha Haran, Shareeka Helaluddin, Tim Worton, Toobs Anwar alongside an orbit on contributors and collaborators here and abroad ⋆⁺₊✧. We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where FBi Radio broadcasts out of ⋆⁺₊✧. 
We want to hear from you! If you have an idea, collaboration or story to share we would love to hear from you, reach us at racematters [at] fbiradio [dot] com
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