Print Issue: MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS, Dec 2024 / Jan 2025, Vol 9, No 6, 110 pages
The mother/daughter relationship is famously complicated. Add in a cancer diagnosis, and things get ridiculously complex. We learn about our bodies, our place in the world, and our worth from watching our moms. When cancer comes along, some of us want our moms involved; others don’t. Some of us watched our moms face breast cancer before us. Some of us are now caregivers to our moms as they face their own illnesses and cancers. Maybe you’re a mom with a daughter of your own and a cancer diagnosis has affected that relationship. Wherever you find yourself on this spectrum, these are your stories of navigating the mother/daughter relationship and the lessons you've learned along the way.
Guest Editor and Cover Star: Gillian Lichota, Founder of iRise Above Foundation
Contents:
Butterfly Island a poem by Zoe Culbertson | A Mother’s Biggest Problem by Julia D. Tabisz | Rebuilding on My Terms by Claudia De Pasquale | The Way It Felt by Erin Perkins | Period (After Lucille Clifton) a poem by Maya Kini | Dear Daughter by Michelle Johnson | Bunty’s Gift by Claire Lemiski | An Open Letter to My Daughter, Layke by Gillian Lichota | Two Mothers and Two Daughters by Heather Gaffney | Can We Talk About Cancer? by Cindy Eastman and Annie Musso | Unfertile a poem by Crystal Payne | My Side by Shelley Moreno | DNA, Destiny, and My Daughter by Lisa Cassenti | The Sweetest Hug by Ariana Prado | Because I Thought a Gift Might Entice You a poem by Stefanie LeJeunesse | If I Could Say Anything to My Mother by Naomi Lempert | My Mom is One of Them by Ava Wiler | Through Her Eyes by Lilly Ribner | A Mother’s Work is Never Done by Jennifer Gordon | Risk Is Just Risk a poem by Pye Pajewski
PLUS: Guest Editor’s Note by Gillian Lichota | Tell Your Story Writing Prompt by April Johnson Stearns
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS, Dec 2024 / Jan 2025, Vol 9, No 6, 110 pages
The mother/daughter relationship is famously complicated. Add in a cancer diagnosis, and things get ridiculously complex. We learn about our bodies, our place in the world, and our worth from watching our moms. When cancer comes along, some of us want our moms involved; others don’t. Some of us watched our moms face breast cancer before us. Some of us are now caregivers to our moms as they face their own illnesses and cancers. Maybe you’re a mom with a daughter of your own and a cancer diagnosis has affected that relationship. Wherever you find yourself on this spectrum, these are your stories of navigating the mother/daughter relationship and the lessons you've learned along the way.
Guest Editor and Cover Star: Gillian Lichota, Founder of iRise Above Foundation
Contents:
Butterfly Island a poem by Zoe Culbertson | A Mother’s Biggest Problem by Julia D. Tabisz | Rebuilding on My Terms by Claudia De Pasquale | The Way It Felt by Erin Perkins | Period (After Lucille Clifton) a poem by Maya Kini | Dear Daughter by Michelle Johnson | Bunty’s Gift by Claire Lemiski | An Open Letter to My Daughter, Layke by Gillian Lichota | Two Mothers and Two Daughters by Heather Gaffney | Can We Talk About Cancer? by Cindy Eastman and Annie Musso | Unfertile a poem by Crystal Payne | My Side by Shelley Moreno | DNA, Destiny, and My Daughter by Lisa Cassenti | The Sweetest Hug by Ariana Prado | Because I Thought a Gift Might Entice You a poem by Stefanie LeJeunesse | If I Could Say Anything to My Mother by Naomi Lempert | My Mom is One of Them by Ava Wiler | Through Her Eyes by Lilly Ribner | A Mother’s Work is Never Done by Jennifer Gordon | Risk Is Just Risk a poem by Pye Pajewski
PLUS: Guest Editor’s Note by Gillian Lichota | Tell Your Story Writing Prompt by April Johnson Stearns
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS, Dec 2024 / Jan 2025, Vol 9, No 6, 110 pages
The mother/daughter relationship is famously complicated. Add in a cancer diagnosis, and things get ridiculously complex. We learn about our bodies, our place in the world, and our worth from watching our moms. When cancer comes along, some of us want our moms involved; others don’t. Some of us watched our moms face breast cancer before us. Some of us are now caregivers to our moms as they face their own illnesses and cancers. Maybe you’re a mom with a daughter of your own and a cancer diagnosis has affected that relationship. Wherever you find yourself on this spectrum, these are your stories of navigating the mother/daughter relationship and the lessons you've learned along the way.
Guest Editor and Cover Star: Gillian Lichota, Founder of iRise Above Foundation
Contents:
Butterfly Island a poem by Zoe Culbertson | A Mother’s Biggest Problem by Julia D. Tabisz | Rebuilding on My Terms by Claudia De Pasquale | The Way It Felt by Erin Perkins | Period (After Lucille Clifton) a poem by Maya Kini | Dear Daughter by Michelle Johnson | Bunty’s Gift by Claire Lemiski | An Open Letter to My Daughter, Layke by Gillian Lichota | Two Mothers and Two Daughters by Heather Gaffney | Can We Talk About Cancer? by Cindy Eastman and Annie Musso | Unfertile a poem by Crystal Payne | My Side by Shelley Moreno | DNA, Destiny, and My Daughter by Lisa Cassenti | The Sweetest Hug by Ariana Prado | Because I Thought a Gift Might Entice You a poem by Stefanie LeJeunesse | If I Could Say Anything to My Mother by Naomi Lempert | My Mom is One of Them by Ava Wiler | Through Her Eyes by Lilly Ribner | A Mother’s Work is Never Done by Jennifer Gordon | Risk Is Just Risk a poem by Pye Pajewski
PLUS: Guest Editor’s Note by Gillian Lichota | Tell Your Story Writing Prompt by April Johnson Stearns
Big thanks to our Underwriters for their support of this issue! iRise Above Foundation; ABCD: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis; Ana Ono; Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS) & Mets in the City (MITC); Cancer Free Haven; Grace, Grit, and Gratitude; Keep a Breast; Le Wren; Roots & Wings Foundation; Temple of Kinship; The Busted Tank; Young Women's Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation; and “Empowered Intimacy: Getting Your Sexy Back After Breast Cancer" a podcast series by Cancer Fashionista and "Dear Cancer, I’m Beautiful”
