Children of the Waters
Arts & Ideas
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Sabina Dasani is a BBC Radio 3 Arts and Humanities Research Council new generation thinker. She talks about rituals that have helped women cope with the grief after miscarriage. Mitsuku Kuyu is an ancient Japanese Buddhist ritual which has been adopted by western women mourning miscarriages. In traditional ceremonies, it is male priests who conduct Rituals such as hanging red bibs or necklaces around statues of jutsu - god believed to transport dead fetuses to other world. But in many contemporary rituals, it is women bereaved by miscarriage who chant and perform ceremony.
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