Lana Lin: The Cancer Journals Revisited

October 7, 2019

Los Angeles Premiere! The Cancer Journals Revisited (2018, 98 min) is a poetic rumination on the precarious conditions of survival for women of color. At the invitation of the filmmaker, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven artists, activists, and current and former patients recite queer black poet Audre Lorde’s riveting 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience, reflecting on what it means to be a woman contending with illness and its afterlife.

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