METASTATIC BREAST CANCER - LOVE & INTIMACY, October / November 2026 (Vol 11, No. 5)
We offer limited print runs of each of our issues. Print orders for this issue will remain open until the end of the day on Monday, October 26th. Orders will be shipped at once in mid-November.
Intimacy is not just physical or romantic—though it can be that too. It is closeness. Presence. The experience of being fully known by someone or something: a partner, a friend, a child, your own body. Living with metastatic breast cancer complicates every one of those relationships, not just the sexual one. For this theme, we asked our community how MBC has changed the way they inhabit themselves, how they have let people close, and how they want and allow themselves to be wanted.
Within this issue, you will find 17 writers on the topic of love and intimacy in the glare of MBC, representing these diverse diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, and 40s
- Breast cancer types: IDC, ILC, and Inflammatory
- Metastatic recurrences and de novo diagnoses
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
Contributors:
Guest Editor and Cover Star Wren Morrobel, Founder & Producer, Living Our Breast Lives
Cancer Doesn’t Get to Come on the First Date by Deborah “Deb” Blake-Ontiveros | The Woman Beneath the Diagnosis by Alexis Desai | Borrowing Stable by Sheila Dowd | Two Truths I Hold At Once by Alea Giles | Reflections by Cheri Henderson | The Untold Story of My Intimate Life by Heather Jose | Take the Picture by Elissa Kalver | The Beauty and Beast of Love by Teckla King-O’Connor | The Space Between Us by Gillian Lichota | The Days Between Living by Frances Malinis | The Possibility of You by Wren Morrobel | Please Keep Asking by Nina Poletti | Already Golden by Kate Rowbotham | Practically Newlywed by Margaret Strong | Blooming in My Body by Rachael Taylor | Laughing Together by Sara Vieira | Alive, Not Available by Avamarie Warden
Dimensions:
115 full-color pages printed on premium paper, book size: 4.25” x 5.5”
Discount automatically applied on orders of 11+.
METASTATIC BREAST CANCER - LOVE & INTIMACY, October / November 2026 (Vol 11, No. 5)
We offer limited print runs of each of our issues. Print orders for this issue will remain open until the end of the day on Monday, October 26th. Orders will be shipped at once in mid-November.
Intimacy is not just physical or romantic—though it can be that too. It is closeness. Presence. The experience of being fully known by someone or something: a partner, a friend, a child, your own body. Living with metastatic breast cancer complicates every one of those relationships, not just the sexual one. For this theme, we asked our community how MBC has changed the way they inhabit themselves, how they have let people close, and how they want and allow themselves to be wanted.
Within this issue, you will find 17 writers on the topic of love and intimacy in the glare of MBC, representing these diverse diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, and 40s
- Breast cancer types: IDC, ILC, and Inflammatory
- Metastatic recurrences and de novo diagnoses
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
Contributors:
Guest Editor and Cover Star Wren Morrobel, Founder & Producer, Living Our Breast Lives
Cancer Doesn’t Get to Come on the First Date by Deborah “Deb” Blake-Ontiveros | The Woman Beneath the Diagnosis by Alexis Desai | Borrowing Stable by Sheila Dowd | Two Truths I Hold At Once by Alea Giles | Reflections by Cheri Henderson | The Untold Story of My Intimate Life by Heather Jose | Take the Picture by Elissa Kalver | The Beauty and Beast of Love by Teckla King-O’Connor | The Space Between Us by Gillian Lichota | The Days Between Living by Frances Malinis | The Possibility of You by Wren Morrobel | Please Keep Asking by Nina Poletti | Already Golden by Kate Rowbotham | Practically Newlywed by Margaret Strong | Blooming in My Body by Rachael Taylor | Laughing Together by Sara Vieira | Alive, Not Available by Avamarie Warden
Dimensions:
115 full-color pages printed on premium paper, book size: 4.25” x 5.5”
Discount automatically applied on orders of 11+.
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