audre lord

i'm always happy when great books prof puts up a new video and, even moreso, when it's about something i know nothing about, in this case audre lord's the cancer journals. i ordered it immediately and my plan for this weekend is to read it slowly, let it percolate (i have a side plan to browse some susan sontag b ut i have to dig that out). so far what i'm loving is the language, the bare articulacy of it. obvs i see way more malignancy than most and, while i've read my fair share of disease journey books, i'm not certain i've found one that i've found that's chimed with me with such immediacy. partly i guess because while it's concenred with cancer it's really about life. i'd highly recommend.