Print Issue: COMMUNITY
The COMMUNITY Issue, Aug / Sept 2021, Vol 6, No 4, 99 pages
This issue is all about finding your place after your breast cancer diagnosis, about finding your people - or what to do when you’ve not yet found your place. With a special focus on those that faced diagnosis and/or cancer treatment during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Guest editor: Javacia Harris Bowser, See Jane Write
Cover stars: Javacia Harris Bowser and Marie A. Sutton
Contents:
Dear Body a poem by Asha Miller | My Cancer Sorority: A Community of Love by Marie A. Sutton | The Friends That Leave by Lauren Candies Tarpley | A Journalist Embedded in Cancerland by Aisha Chowdhry | Despair, Disparities, and Finding Hope by LaKisha Cargill | Not Enough Cancer by Kim Harms | Getaway by Bisa Myles | Uncertainty and Me by Lori Chen | Roots and Branches by Tara Coyote | The Vlog Lifeline by Sarah DiMuro | I Was Along Until I Wasn’t by Jessica Fox | One of Us by Grace Lewis | Redirection Not Rejection: The Birth of TNBC Thrivers by Kelly Thomas | Not The Same by Beth Lifson | Attract Your Tribe by Christy Greenleaf | She Will Be Heard by Shanice T. Johnson | The Lie a poem by Angie Metts | Finding Myself in Hashtags by Tina Nixon | My Unexpected Breast Cancer Community by Mia Ransom Parnell | My Community Saved Me by Karla Ross | How to Change the World by Val Swan | There Can Be Joy by Meghan Nathanson
Additional Contributors: Katelyn Burell, Jaclyn Chung, Tracee C., Kate E., Pamela George, Ashley Leeman, Chiara Riga, and Kari-Anne Wergeland
PLUS: Tell Your Story Writing Prompt by April Stearns and Editor’s Note by Guest Editor Javacia Harris Bowser
Cover image by Melissa D Newton of J&M Photography
