Writer, photographer, and curator Joanna Ebenstein talks about Goth obsessions, memento mori, Santa Muerta, and her extraordinary new illustrated collection Death: A Graveside Companion (Thames & Hudson).    [embed]https://expandingmind.podbean.com/mf/play/rtzz8h/EXMind_111617.mp3[/embed]…

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