Periagoge
Scenario

When adoption complicates inherited mourning responsibilities

I am the oldest daughter and supposed to lead the women's mourning songs, but I was adopted and never learned them properly, and now everyone expects me to know something I was never fully taught.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family roles can demand cultural knowledge that was never fully transmitted.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African grief traditions — communal mourning?”

Peri

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