Dia De Muertos
A blend of Mesoamerican ritual, European religion and Spanish culture, the holiday is celebrated each year at the beginning of November
Dia De Muertos Digital Ofrenda and Community Memorial
This digital ofrenda also serves as a grassroots fundraiser, providing a way for our conscientious community to help us in this imperative movement towards developing the canon of post-colonial, anti-racist death work. All legacy funds donated in honor of your loved one will be put towards hosting workshops, paying scholars and writers, and bringing anti-racist death work to communities around the world.
Día de Muertos, interchangeably translated as Day of the Dead or All Souls’ Day, is the annual exaltation and remembrance of the ancestors and beloved dead who have gone before us and is rooted to both indigenous culture ways and Catholic influence in Mexico. These celebrations of our beloved dead call for ofrendas, or altars, lined with mementos of their lives lived and of their favorite things.
As a collective that threads colonialism, justice, death, and grief together in our scholarship and pursuits, we have launched this digital altar in tandem with our October programming.
Now more than ever, community capacity for internal grief, public mourning, and connection is a necessity. How we love shapes how we grieve. How we grieve impacts how we live. When we account for both, our loved one’s legacies live with and through us.
This fall, alongside Día De Muertos which runs at the start of November, we will run our first-ever digital ofrenda from October 27th through November 30th.
We would love for you to share the stories of those you are mourning, missing, and celebrating.
Make a donation to the altar.
All legacy funds donated in honor of your loved one will be put towards hosting workshops, paying scholars and writers, and bringing anti-racist death work to communities around the world.
The Collective for Radical Death Studies has the pleasure of working with talented scholars deconstructing and reconstructing death stories around the world. In this video, CRDS contributor Marlene Melissa Davila discusses the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, MX.
We encourage you to watch this short film by Director Monica Alvarez to better understand the richness and ritual of Día de Muertos from Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico.
Your legacy funds
This digital ofrenda also serves as a grassroots fundraiser, providing a way for our conscientious community to help us in this imperative movement towards developing the canon of post-colonial, anti-racist death work. All legacy funds donated in honor of your loved one will be put towards hosting workshops, paying scholars and writers, and bringing anti-racist death work to communities around the world.
