The Cancer Journals Revisited (2019)

THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to revisit and revision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lordes classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 twentyseven writers artists activists health care advocates and current and former patients recite Lordes manifesto aloud on camera collectively dramatizing it and producing an oration for the screen The film is both a critical commentary and a poetic reflection upon the precarious conditions of survival within the intimate and politicized public sphere of illness