The Cancer Journals
Lorde on her diagnosis, her mastectomy, and her refusal of the prosthesis she was expected to wear, insisting throughout that silence about illness is a political act.
Lorde’s account of her breast cancer diagnosis, mastectomy, and refusal of the prosthesis she was expected to wear, written as a Black lesbian feminist who insisted that silence about illness is political. Short, furious, and unlike any other illness memoir. The refusal is the argument: she declines to make other people comfortable by pretending her body is unchanged.
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