We often go off alone in our grief, seeking comfort in solitude. But sometimes, as with Freddie Gray’s mother, public mourning is an act of courage, of naming the fact that our personal pain is part of a larger fracture in civic life.
What do you feel deserves public mourning?
The damage that sexism, patriarchy and misogyny does to our entire society, men as well as women.
Every single senseless act of violence against any sentient being, deserves public mourning.