Joyce "Shatzi" Weisberger (née Schatzberg; June 17, 1930 – December 1, 2022) was an American death educator, activist, and nurse in New York City.

[10] Her nursing career coincided with the peak of HIV/AIDS-related deaths in New York City during the 1980s, during which she provided home care for individuals dying from the disease.

At one Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020, which occurred on her 90th birthday, she was dubbed "the people's bubbie" (a Yiddish term for a grandmother);[2] she wrote a column in HuffPost stating that she wanted the police to be abolished for her 90th birthday,[8][13] stating that the "only way all people will ever be able to live and die as they wish is if we pursue abolition".

[14] In 2021, Weisberger cited her age as a positive contributor to her activism, explaining that her presence "brings attention to the issues that matter" and expressing an intent to participate in "as many demonstrations as I possibly can".

She has stated that around 1983, someone suggested that she read a book she no longer remembered the title of, and it led her to begin questioning her views on Zionism and eventually to oppose the ideology entirely.

[15] As she became associated with the anti-Zionist movement, Weisberger worked with the Palestinian Defense Committee founded by Rabab Abdulhadi, staffing their literature table at various events.

[10] Asked about her "secret to longevity" in an interview for Glorious Broads, she cited dietary supplements, always being passionately engaged in a project, avoiding stress, drinking green tea, and smoking marijuana every night.

[17] In April 2022, Weisberger told the LGBTQ&A podcast[18] that she hoped to have time to experience the dying process in her own home; items in her house were tagged with the name of the person to whom she wanted to bequeath them.

[9] After being diagnosed with untreatable pancreatic cancer in October 2022, Weisberger called Leland the following month, inviting him to report on the end of her life (and asking him to bring her a cannabis edible).

Despite difficulty caused by a labor shortage and high costs, she secured in-home hospice care with the aid of friends and a GoFundMe created by Jewish Voice for Peace.

[9] By November 21, she was in the company of friends and hospice care, and on that day two film crews came to her apartment; Vogue was working on a profile of her.

That same day, the New York chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace posted on Instagram that Weisberger had died the night before at her home, in accordance with her wishes.

[19] An obituary published in BuzzFeed News noted that her death was widely mourned on social media,[13] while Them reported that a "joyous online memorial" and celebration of life was being planned.

[14] Middle East Eye characterized her as a "Jewish American abolitionist and feminist, who became a beloved symbol of intersectional solidarity for queer rights, Black Lives Matter, and pro-Palestinian demonstrations in New York City".

The publication quoted a post on Twitter by Egyptian activist and academic Alia ElKattan, who wrote that she had encountered Weisberger at a Palestine-related event the week before her death.