Readers in order of appearance: Shayla Lawson, Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, Laurrice Monnae, Hira Nabi, Ericka Hart, Catalina Schliebener, Shanese I. Johnson, Lama Bazzi, Elaine Gan, Barbara Hammer, Sebene Selassie, Maria-Elena Grant, Veronica de Paulo Lawrence, Kimberleigh Joy Smith, Jane Ann Valentine, Barbara Schroeder, Karl Surkan, Shay Sharpe, Melanie (Melly) Testa, Eileen Z. Fuentes, Carolyn Lazard, Kira Lynn Harris, Porochista Khakpour, Aruna D'Souza, Vanessa Agard-Jones, Michelle Handelman, Suleika Jaouad. This disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD players or drives. Originally released as a motion picture in 2018. "Inspired by The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde" -- End credits.
Summary:
The Cancer Journals Revisited is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian poet Audre Lorde's classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience through the lens of Black lesbian feminist theory today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Lorde's manifesto aloud on camera, collectively dramatizing it, sharing their candid stories, and producing an oration for this poetic rumination on the precarious conditions of survival for women of color today.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1125270537
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.