After reading Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphor I’m left wondering whether the stories we tell others and ourselves about our bodies are truly ours—especially stories about diseases. Sontag’s work has me reconsidering my mother’s experience with breast cancer and how she carried herself as a woman with this disease. MyContinue reading “Breast Cancer and Its Metaphors”
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Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
I have an increased risk for developing breast cancer because my mother had the disease. She passed away eight years ago and since then, on most days I imagine the conversations I’d have with her about dreams and fears, writing, food, health, and love. Sometimes I’d write about those conversations as a way to remainContinue reading “Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer”
Yuka Polovina 