Why This Book? When Audre Lorde faced breast cancer as a racialized Black lesbian poet in 1977, she refused Western medicine’s scripts of shame. The Cancer Journals (1980) is a manifesto against systems that erase marginalized bodies. Lorde exposes how Western medicine: “Prosthesis offers the empty comfort of ‘Nobody will know.’ But it is that difference I wish … Continue reading 🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 3 Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals—Where Silence Becomes Strength