Print Issue: QUEER IN CANCERLAND

QUEER IN CANCERLAND, Feb / Mar 2024, Vol 9, No 1, 100+ pages

Our first-ever "Queer in Cancerland" issue shines a spotlight on queer memoirs to provide a space within the breast cancer community that validates a part of your identity you might not always feel is acknowledged. Our hope with this issue is that telling and reading these stories will make you feel more whole & will make cancerland safer for others. ⁠Don’t identify as LGBTQIA2S+ yourself? Not to worry - the stories within this issue are important and transformative - whether you call yourself queer or not. We all have lessons to learn from each other about living, not just surviving, after diagnosis.

Cover Star: Steph Millett

Contents:

A Queer Gift a poem by Anna Prette | Stay Visible by Steph Millett | Asymmetry by Julia D. Pereira | A Stranger in Strange Times by Mike Hooves | The Chair by Shawna King-Lobmiller | I thought love protected the breast a poem Amy Reichbach | What Goes Missing by Catherine Guthrie | Longing to Belong by Ash Davidson | Wanna Be Friends? by Emily Rau and Katie Nieland | Salacious —> ACE by Miriam Janove | Margins by Lauren Trestler | Release by Meghan McCallum | Love Letter words by Irene van Zeeland photography by Carolina Kzan | Kimiko Does Cancer by Kimiko Tobimatsu | Car Battery by Dawn Amodeo | Strange Bedfellows by Catherine Sumner | Let the Light In a poem by Ariana Prado

PLUS: Editor’s Note and Tell Your Story Writing Prompt by April Johnson Stearns