Posts Tagged: breast cancer
Fool Me Once
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
...moreBody Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
...moreVariants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
...moreIt’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...moreOpen Letter to Our Body
The only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
...moreSwinging Modern Sounds #91: In Four Equal Parts
Part of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.
...moreVoices on Addiction: Duet
I trust, nowadays. I have to keep at it
...moreWriting When Your Life Depends on It
Do I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
...moreCAN-CER-VIVE
I’ve only had breast cancer once and already I know too much.
...moreNaked in Japan
Thin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
...moreA Tiny Wellspring of Comfort: Nina Riggs’s The Bright Hour
[Nina] is not a warrior but a reconnoiter at life’s edge.
...moreHannibal Lecter, My Therapist
In the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
...moreRumpus Original Fiction: The Lacking World
I acted childishly. But, in my defense, it was childish only if we actually lived in a world where Shakespeare had never existed.
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #132: Juliana Hatfield
“These songs are not just sweet confections. They’re talking about real things, like pain, and not being able to connect.”
...moreWhat to Read When It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month
A list of books that offer various ways to understand what breast cancer means in our lives, individually and collectively.
...moreThe Truth About Lying
My gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
...moreWhat I’ll Tell My Children: On Being ‘F***Able’ under the Regime of President-elect
It’s time to take responsibility for compliancy.
...moreThe Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Year of Light and Dark
It isn’t much of a contest to say that Julie Coyne is the single most inspirational human being I have ever met. And I am here—in Xela—in part because I could use a little inspiration.
...moreThe Mortgage Arrangement
It’s true that real estate can’t save a marriage. But it might be equally true that it can save a relationship.
...moreA Case, Diagnosis, and Its Findings
There was nothing open about my heart; my chest tightened, threatening to implode.
...moreNeon Green by Margaret Wappler
Rebecca Johns reviews Neon Green by Margaret Wappler today in Rumpus Books.
...moreWoman of the Earth
I left my family’s home in the US afterward because I didn’t know how to stay in the same place where everything had changed.
...moreSuper Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Julia MacDonnell
Julia was one of those “students” whom you suspect, after maybe fifteen seconds, should actually be teaching the class you are currently (allegedly) teaching.
...moreWomen Dying from Being Women
Anne Boyer writes about the history of breast cancer for The New Inquiry. There is no disease more calamitous to women’s intellectual history than breast cancer: this is because there is no disease more distinctly calamitous to women. There is also no disease more voluminous in its agonies, agonies not only about the disease itself, […]
...moreLike Writer, Like Character
Sometimes writers end up diagnosed with the very same disease they’ve inflicted on their characters. Natalie Serber knows firsthand—she received a breast cancer diagnosis halfway through creating Mona Brown, a character in her latest novel. Over at Beyond the Margins, Serber writes about sharing a diseases with Mona: First I had to survive. I had […]
...moreFission Accomplished
A collection of linked stories set at Fort Hood convey the loneliness and strain experienced by military families.
...moreThe Life Of The Body: Masha Gessen’s Blood Matters
Grace Talusan reviews Masha Gessen’s fascinating but hard look at the decision to get a preventive mastectomy, in the context of Talusan’s own decision to get a preventive mastectomy.
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