On March 28, 2026, Rituals in the Making traveled to Wall, NJ to attend the sixth annual lighting ceremony hosted by Rami’s Heart COVID-19 Memorial.
Tag: covid-19
At Naming the Lost Memorial, St. Mark’s in the Bowery
Date posted: November 16, 2025.
On November 2, 2025, a beautiful autumn afternoon in New York City, I attended the annual Día de Muertos ceremony sponsored by Mano o Mano, a New York City based Mexican cultural association. As part of this event, the COVID remembrance project, Naming the Lost Memorial, held its final presentation honoring the more than 46,000 New York City residents who have died from COVID-19. This concluded five years of work, throughout the five boroughs, putting names and faces to those who have been lost.
Ordinary Necropolitics: Presenting Loss at the 17th International DDD Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands
Date posted: September 19, 2025
The interdisciplinary space of the conference in the Netherlands provided members of the project a chance to present findings, learn from other scholars, and exchange ideas about death, mourning, and memorialization.
Reinventing the Wheel
Date posted: Sept 18, 2025
Hanaan Khabir interviewed Brett Hartford (he/him) on his experiences working with unhoused populations during the official years of the pandemic (March 2020-May 2023).
When tradition meets crisis: Egyptian Weddings during COVID-19
Date posted: September 9, 2025
Given the plethora of weddings I have attended, I naively thought that weddings were a fixed ceremony, a ritual with a durable sequence that brings two people together.
The Privilege of Hesitancy
Date posted: August 4, 2025
On May 16, 2025, Hanaan Khabir interviewed Eddy (she/her) on her experiences working with unhoused populations during the official years of the pandemic (March 2020-May 2023). She currently works as the director of a university-based organization that supports survivors of sexual violence, intimate-partner violence, and stalking. Before becoming director, she worked as a case manager on a sexual assault response team, providing the advocacy response for survivors of sexual assault, an agency that also included advocating in hospitals where SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner) exams were conducted.
From World War II to Covid-19
Date Posted: June 13, 2025
For Page Hawk, 2020 began like any other year, with the exception, she told me, “of massive construction at Ingleside and the rapid spread of COVID-19.” Hawk spent the majority of her life in Washington, DC. She described her decision to move into independent living at Ingleside as a practical one. “We moved here to socialize,” she told me matter-of-factly. “Back in 2020, there was a new director at Ingleside. His name was Felix. He was quite strict with us about social distancing and
following the rules.”
LouVax, Four Years Later
Date posted: Abril 16, 2025
From January to late April 2021, the city of Louisville, Kentucky ran an elaborately coordinated COVID-19 vaccination site at Broadbent Arena within the Louisville Exposition Center grounds. The clinic administered over 100,000 shots and employed volunteers who put in over 76,000 hours.
The Work of Remembrance, 5 Years On: Rami’s Heart 5th Annual Lighting Ceremony
Date posted: March 31, 2025
Rituals in the Making joined Rami’s Heart Memorial for their fifth annual lighting ceremony on March 15, 2025.
Vignettes of Time: Reflections on the Week COVID Came to Be with Hanaan and Avery
Date posted: March 14, 2025
For Hanaan, COVID began in December when the news began reporting it, working as a volunteer in the ER and seeing people come in droves, fearing they had contracted this virus. But the world officially ‘ended’ when everything in the United States shut down. For Avery, it was a slow trickle, then all at once with her birthday on the 14th of March in Texas – a state that would become contentious in the debate over covid restrictions that came from the community efforts to stop the spread of the virus.