![]() ![]() What is this work all for? What does it matter if I ever speak again or not?” Lorde confronts other tough questions, including the role of holistic and alternative treatments and whether her cancer (and its recurrence) was preventable. The arrogant blindness of comfortable white women. “There is no room around me in which to be still,” she writes, “to examine and explore what pain is mine alone-no device to separate my struggle within from my fury at the outside world’s viciousness, the stupid brutal lack of consciousness or concern that passes for the way things are. She envisioned herself as a powerful fighter while also examining the connection between her illness and her activism. Her recovery was characterized by resistance and learning to love her body again. Through prose, poems, and selected journal entries beginning six months after the surgery, the author explores the anger, pain, and fear that her illness wrought. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her mid-40s, Lorde (1934-1992) was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a radical mastectomy. The groundbreaking Black lesbian writer and activist chronicles her experience with cancer. ![]()
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