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: Prioritizes aesthetics over healing, pressuring mastectomy patients into prostheses to “comfort” others, and privileges normalized people’s … Continue reading 🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 3 Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals—Where Silence Becomes Strength