asreadbycatarina 's review for:

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

4.0

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

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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.