“I have been deeply inspired by my great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, sisters and aunts who have provided and continue to provide care to their communities in world-changing and world-making ways,” says Recreation and Leisure Studies master’s student CJ Cargill.
CJ worked as a recreation therapist in long-term care throughout the pandemic. That, paired with her appreciation for the women in her family, drove her interest to understand the impact of unprocessed grief on racialized health-care workers.
She examines the possibilities of using therapeutic landscapes — memorial gardens, community healing gardens — as potential sites for collective healing.
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