Audre Lorde · Audre Lorde: Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde - Audre Lorde: Cancer Journals

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The poet who made illness, identity, and survival impossible to keep private. A memento mori obituary comic centered on 1977 breast-cancer diagnosis and mastectomy; later liver cancer before her death in 1992, after The Cancer Journals turned illness into public witness.

Citable Summary

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: 1977 breast-cancer diagnosis and mastectomy; later liver cancer before her death in 1992, after The Cancer Journals turned illness into public witness.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including National Women’s History Museum; Smithsonian NMAAHC; Poetry Foundation; New York Times obituary.

Story Notes

This comic follows Audre Lorde, The poet who made illness, identity, and survival impossible to keep private.

The story turns on 1977 breast-cancer diagnosis and mastectomy; later liver cancer before her death in 1992, after The Cancer Journals turned illness into public witness, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes National Women’s History Museum; Smithsonian NMAAHC; Poetry Foundation; New York Times obituary.

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National Women’s History Museum
Smithsonian NMAAHC
Poetry Foundation
New York Times obituary

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