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Welcome to Talking Matters, a blog featuring updates, stories, and interviews from The Conversation Project. Check back each week for a new post!

Call for Bloggers
Posted on 12/17/2020

Who should submit? When it comes to issues of mortality, all of us have a story to tell. We want to know how your identity, expertise, and personal life experiences have impacted the ways in…

Won’t You Have These Conversations With Me?
By Aisha Adkins, 12/08/2020

When you grow up medically fragile, mortality is always on the forefront of your mind. When you grow up as one of a handful of minorities and persons with a disability in an extremely homogenous…

The reality of our current existence is that living online is literally a matter of life and death. Doing things virtually means lowering the risk of spreading the deadly coronavirus. In Judaism, pikuach nefesh, saving…

Clouds: Confronting Mortality through Film
By Steph Coulombre, 11/02/2020

On the evening that Disney Plus released Clouds – a new movie from the director of Five Feet Apart – I grabbed a box of tissues and braced myself for what I knew would be…