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4.49 AVERAGE
4.49 AVERAGE
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After all, what could we possibly be afraid of after having admitted to ourselves that we had dealt face to face with Death and not embraced it? For once we accept the actual existence of our dying, who can ever have power over us again?
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My work is to inhabit the silences with which I have lived and fill them with myself until they have the sounds of brightest day and the loudest thunder. And then there will be no room left inside of me for what has been except as memory of sweetness enhancing what can and is to be.
- Lorde, The Cancer Journals, Breast Cancer: A Black Lesbian Feminist Experience, 1978
As someone who has been through breast cancer, Audre’s is a gorgeous, vivid, clear perspective. The way she articulates this epidemic taking primarily women, how it eats our bodies and is treated socially as cosmetic, the clarity and drive that fills the time that remains. I am grateful to her, I am so grateful to her for her bravery in articulation.
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My work is to inhabit the silences with which I have lived and fill them with myself until they have the sounds of brightest day and the loudest thunder. And then there will be no room left inside of me for what has been except as memory of sweetness enhancing what can and is to be.
- Lorde, The Cancer Journals, Breast Cancer: A Black Lesbian Feminist Experience, 1978
As someone who has been through breast cancer, Audre’s is a gorgeous, vivid, clear perspective. The way she articulates this epidemic taking primarily women, how it eats our bodies and is treated socially as cosmetic, the clarity and drive that fills the time that remains. I am grateful to her, I am so grateful to her for her bravery in articulation.
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Mini-review: Audre and I might have had very different experiences, but I found it refreshingly fascinating to see breast cancer through the lens of a Black lesbian feminist woman. Even though she was diagnosed in the late 1970s, many issues she mentions are still prevalent in the breast cancer community, while others have been further studied, disproved, improved, or changed. Although I did not agree with all her views or arguments, Audre and I converge in three fundamental aspects: our feminism, our queerness, and our cancers. And each one of us with our truth and experiences.
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