With significant sorrow, I announce that Cris Velazquez died by suicide at home on October 12, 2023. I appreciate your patience in regards to not having been able to share this devastating news sooner. I'm working on planning the details of a memorial event. This website is a digital space in which friends, family, comrades, and others may contribute their memories and tales of Cris. You are welcome to contact me with any kind thoughts, sentiments, or questions that have arisen for you as a result of this painful news. I had been dating Cris since March, I care about them incredibly deeply, and this is a profound loss. “Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in the hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”- Jamie Anderson “Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others.” – Frances Weller With a heavy heart, Rowan