kev_nickells 's review for:

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
5.0

Got this for a dear friend last year when she had a cancer diagnosis. Was re-issued not long after. It's only short but, as you'd expect from St Audre, it's gorgeous. Clear and touching and not harrowing but tender and detailed without being gruesome and fundamentally tied to her love of the women in her life.

There's a lot of information in here about the oppressive effects of female beauty standards and fertility but fundamentally you should read this Audre is one of the 20th century's kindest, most warming writers, despite the heaps of shit she got dealt.