Welcome, Bay Area Young Survivors

Presenting the “Bay Area Young Survivors” issue of Wildfire journal!

In February 2021, April Stearns and Monica Haro put together a special issue of WILDFIRE magazine to showcase the stories of 25 young people diagnosed with breast cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area — all members of BAYS-MITC. April and Monica are both members of BAYS-MITC themselves and know firsthand how special and unique the community is. They wanted to celebrate the storytelling of the community and hoped the issue would also inspire others around the world to find or create their own breast cancer communities.

The digital version of this issue has been made available to you as a gift by the BAYS-MITC Board of Directors. Read it below in your browser, or via PDF download (38 MB).

Note: On March 20th, 2021, we held a storytelling event via Zoom as a companion to this issue. At the event, a handful of writers from the issue read their stories aloud. Click here to watch the recording of this event (2 hours). Use password: BAYS

Correction: On page 85, we missed including Harini Ganesan in the list of memorials. We deeply regret this omission.

Learn more about Wildfire Journal here.