#the cancer journals

[mothprincess]

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

#quotes #reading #audre lorde #the cancer journals

[spiderversegf]

i think everyone needs to carry this bit of audre lorde's writing with them. (this is from the cancer journals).

#c reads #the cancer journals #audre lorde

[chronicpaingirlie]

"I'm so tired of this. I want to be the person I used to be, the real me. I feel sometimes that it's all a dream, and surely I'm about to wake up now."

- from Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals

#ough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( #0 #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #disability #disabled #the cancer journals

[sisteroutsiders]

Audre Lorde on being loved by women while facing a cancer diagnosis

And it was the concern and caring of all those women which gave me strength and enabled me to scrutinize the essentials of my living....The women who sustained me through that period were Black and white, old and young, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual, and we all shared a war against the tyrannies of silence. They all gave me a strength and concern without which I could not have survived intact.

from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” as published in Sister Outsider (1983)

But support will always have a special and vividly erotic set of image/meanings for me now, one of which is floating upon a sea within a ring of women like warm bubbles keeping me afloat upon the surface of that sea. I can feel the texture of inviting water just beneath their eyes, and do not fear it. It is the sweet smell of their breath and laughter and voices calling my name that gives me volition, helps me remember I want to turn away from looking down….Perhaps I can say this all more simply; I say the love of women healed me.

from The Cancer Journals (1980)

#Audre Lorde #feminist theory #black feminism #sister outsider #the cancer journals #the transformation of silence into language and action #cancer cw #quotations #prose

[tjeromebaker]

Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth With Audre Lorde: The Cancer Journals and Zami - A New Spelling Of My Name

Audre Lorde was born on this day, February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York She was only 58 when she transitioned, joining the ancestors. She would have been 90 today. The Black feminist, queer, poet, mother, warrior Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed…

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#Audre Lorde #BHM #Black History Month #feminism #feminist #intersectionality #lesbian #memoir #Mother #poet #poetry #The Cancer Journals

[nataliewaitegf]

:(

#ms lorde u were right abt everything. #🤍 #words #📖 #the cancer journals

[kinesixtape]

“I don’t feel like being strong, but do I have a choice? It hurts when even my sisters look at me in the street with cold and silent eyes. I am defined as other in every group I’m a part of. The outsider, both strength and weakness. Yet without community there is certainly no liberation, no future, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between me and my oppression.”

– Lorde, Audre (1980). The cancer journals. Penguin Classics.

#quotes #audre lorde #the cancer journals #actually disabled #breast cancer #cripple punk #disabled community #kinesixtape crackles #memoirs of disabled folks

[ademella]

currently reading

#audre lorde #the cancer journals #cancer #reading #books #book cover #memoir #breast cancer #non-fiction #lesbian #lgbtq #black literature

[thisismynarrative]

"To put it another way, I feel always tender in the wrong places." -Audre Lorde from The Cancer Journals

#audre lorde #the cancer journals #read this book #you must #writing #quotes #tender in the wrong places #oof

[slowtides]

But support will always have a special and vividly erotic set of image/meanings for me now, one of which is floating upon a sea within a ring of women like warm bubbles keeping me afloat upon the surface of that sea. I can feel the texture of inviting water just beneath their eyes, and do not fear it. It is the sweet smell of their breath and laughter and voices calling my name that gives me volition, helps me remember I want to turn away from looking down. These images flow quickly, the tangible floods of energy rolling off these women toward me that I converted into power to heal myself. There is so much false spirituality around us these days, calling itself goddess-worship or "the way." It is false because it is too cheaply bought and little understood, but most of all because it does not lend, but rather saps, that energy we need to do our work. So when an example of the real power of healing love comes along such as this one, it is difficult to use the same words to talk about it because so many of our best and most erotic words have been so cheapened. Perhaps I can say this all more simply; I say the love of women healed me.

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals, p. 39

#audre lorde #the cancer journals #healing #readings #quotations

[mothprincess]

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

#quotes #reading #audre lorde #the cancer journals

[spiderversegf]

the cancer journals – audre lorde

#c reads #keep being brave #god........... #audre lorde #the cancer journals

[unhingedandunrelenting]

I must let the pain flow through me and pass on

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

#audre lorde #the cancer journals

[roseoftralee]

"It was a painful moment. I could feel for Allison and for the girl, too, though Connie and I didn’t have any pets, not even one of the new hypoallergenic breeds. There was a larger sadness at play here, the sadness of attachment and loss and the way the world wreaks its changes whether we’re ready for them or not. We would have got through the moment, I think, coming to some sort of understanding—Allison wasn’t vindictive, and I wasn’t about to raise a fuss—but that same breeze swept across the lawn to flip back the edge of the T-shirt and expose the eyeless head of the pig, and that was all it took. Allison let out a gasp, and the dog— that crimson freak—jerked the leash out of the girl’s hand and went right for it."

This short story about a world where eugenics-esque genetic control is widely available (especially to upper classes) and used and how these genetically modified people and animals fit into the world. There is a motif of the supposed control that humans now have over their environment being an illusion through which nature will always emerge. Interacts with both The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Cancer Journals in the way it deals with physical augmentation, genetic and medical ethics, as well as silence and conformity. In the way this story fails to address these issues as well as how it succeeds, it reveals the way these issues are thought about and discussed.

#blklifescience #crisper #henrietta lacks #the cancer journals #new yorker

[atavist]

An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. He took their reproductive organs, gave them false cancer diagnoses, and did other terrible harm. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back. Issue no. 146, DAMAGES, is now available: 

[Debra] requested her medical records and was stunned to find discrepancies with what Perwaiz had said to her during appointments. Most glaringly, she didn’t see any mention of precancerous cells on her cervix; the tests Perwaiz performed on her had come back normal. “If I was normal,” Debra said, “why did I have a surgery?”

There were other inconsistencies. One form from an appointment described Debra complaining of back and pelvic pain, which she told me she never did. Another document dated the day before her surgery stated that she “insisted on having those ovaries removed through the abdominal wall incision and not vaginally,” and that the “consent obtained after entirely counseling the patient [was] for abdominal hysterectomy.” In fact, she had requested the opposite surgical approach, and she recalled no such conversation with Perwaiz; the only time she’d spoken with him in the lead-up to her procedure was in passing in the hospital hallway.

Debra was sure she had a malpractice case. She went to several lawyers, but none of them would take her on as a client. “So many men���man after man saying, ‘You had a decent amount of care, and that’s all you’re afforded,’ ” she said. Frustrated, she came up with a new plan: “I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to learn how to sue this bastard myself.’ ”

#atavist journalism healthcare medicine doctors medicalmalpractice reproductivehealth racism justice virginia truestory #cancer women womenshealth history

[nataliewaitegf]

reading the cancer journals & audre lorde was right about literally everything

#was writing out thoughts bc i wasn’t sure i agreed with one bit and two pages later it’s like OH . i understand . she was right all along #maybe we weren’t meant to go thru everything alone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #🤍 #📖 #the cancer journals