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The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If you choose to use this resource in your classroom, please credit the author. It has since been misappropriated by individuals and organizations, and it has also been responsibly used by a variety of non-profit and educational organizations. This resource was created by Divya Victor for students of her Creative Writing courses at Nanyang Technological University in January 2016. The Cancer Journals (Penguin Modern Classics) The Cancer Journals (Penguin Modern Classics): Lorde, Audre: 9780241453506: : Books Skip to main content. *This question is borrowed from Naomi Wolf’s Commencement address at Scripp’s College, “A Woman’s Place.” The Cancer Journals (Penguin Modern Classics) Lorde, Audre on. ![]() If we have been “socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition”, ask yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?”* Īdapted from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” collected in The Cancer Journals. The Cancer Journals, by writer and activist AudreLorde, explores the impact of breast cancer on a blackfeminist lesbian’s life.“What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?”.What are the words you do not have yet?. ![]()
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