Lorde touches on the counseling procedures that take place post-op via the American Cancer Society's Reach for Recovery Program and their encouragement and promotion of the breast prosthesis. Lorde seeks to understand why those who get mastectomies choose to get reconstructive surgery. I had grown angry at my right breast because I felt as if it had in some unexpected way betrayed me, as if it had become already separate from me and had turned against me by creating this tumor which might be malignant. I know that my people cannot possibly profit from the oppression of any other group which seeks the right to peaceful existence., 12. In this work, Lorde pushes the idea of uniting these groups by finding common ground in their trials and tribulations. url = "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/mobile/phone_images-9e9093f0cfddba8c2b1e815375d976a3.css"; The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. var cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower., 36. "Unacknowledged class differences rob women of each others' energy and creative insight., 13. url = "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/mobile/phone_hd_images-2b89833762f600506d44865a33582d11.css"; // Lorde was a feminist, poet, writer, lesbian, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. } The Cancer Journals consists of an introduction and three chapters, each featuring passages from her diary. For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered., 27. Kayla, Lorde did not just identify with just one category, but many, wanting to celebrate all parts of herself equally. And, of course I am afraid you can hear it in my voice because the transformation of silence into language and actions is an act of self-revelation and that always seems fraught with danger., Each of us struggles daily with the pressures of conformity and the loneliness of difference from which those choices seem to offer escape., Although of course being incorrect is always the hardest, but even that is becoming less important. } It wants racism to be accepted as an immutable given in the fabric of your existence, like evening-time or the common cold., 19. Of what had I, I want to write rage but all that comes is sadness. Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. We are surrounded by media images portraying women as essentially decorative machines of consumer function, constantly doing battle with rampant decay. Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now., 7. There were reasons for that. But the strength of women lies in recognizing differences between us as creative, and in standing to those distortions which we inherited without blame, but which are now ours to alter., 49. New Year's Day | June 1973 Poetry is not luxury. Chapter-by-chapter summaries and multiple sections of expert analysis, The ultimate resource for assignments, engaging lessons, and lively book discussions. Publication date 1997 Topics Lorde, Audre -- Diaries., Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography., Poets, American -- 20th century -- Diaries. date the date you are citing the material. Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness. Your silence will not protect you. } tags: cancer . When I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. The bee flies. For the death I dont know how to postpone? But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification, for it is in the painful process of this translation that we identify who are our allies with whom we have grave differences, and who are our genuine enemies., 35. 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