Cancer in Two Voices
Sandra Butler | Barbara Rosenblum


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When Cancer in Two Voices was first published in 1991, one out of every nine women in the U.S was at risk of developing breast cancer. Now, as the second edition of this popular book is released, we learn that the odds of getting breast cancer have increased to one in eight. When her advanced breast cancer was diagnosed in 1985, Barbara Rosenblum realized that she was "only the first" among her friends to get sick. Rosenblum and her lesbian partner, Sandra Butler, resolved to make the most of their remaining years together. One of the things they did was write this book. Butler and Rosenblum's separate diary entries describe the social and emotional, as well as the physical, effects of breast cancer on their lives. This edition includes a new introduction by Butler, in which she writes about finding hope in the midst of this epidemic.
1 A gay male friend of a deceased lesbian cancer survivor...
I read this book for the first time shortly after my friend Dolores had died from breast cancer, and I was deeply moved by Barbara's perserverance and courage, and Sandra's love for her. I don't think this is the first time that gay men have read books on lesbian experiences of their epidemic- a number of gay male PLWAs have apparently read Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals for that purpose. Barbara's life was rich and varied, and her loss is a searing one. I hope that anyone who reads it is motivated to fight for a world where neither HIV/AIDS or breast cancer cost us the lives of those we love.

Sunday, 06-Jul-2008 17:15:40 CDT
Quote of the Day:


It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do,

that makes life blessed.
-- Goethe

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