Naming The Lost: Reverberations of Grief

We are honored to be part of 20 organizations across New York City that are participating in Naming the Lost, a COVID memorial project dedicated to the experiences and losses New Yorkers have faced since the start of the pandemic.

“The pandemic has exacerbated challenges that many within The W.O.W. Project and Chinatown have been facing for decades, from gentrification and displacement of long-term working class residents to racist and misogynistic violence against Asian women, trans, and non-binary people. Because our work is rooted in the healing that happens when we’re in community, the physical act of gathering and creating a Naming the Lost memorial together has helped transform the grief and rage that so many of us have been holding onto for the past three years."

The wind chime is hung on the Greenwood Cemetery 5th Ave entrance for the month of May and was activated alongside the other memorials on May 11th in a dedication ceremony at the cemetery. The project will be brought back to Chinatown in June, where it will be activated during W.O.W.'s 7 year anniversary finale celebration on June 23rd.