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One Feminist's Report on Her Breast Cancer, Beginning with Semi-diagnosis and Continuing Beyond Chemo, w/ a side of polycythemia thrown in **You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's rye bread, and you don't have to have cancer to read Cancer Bitch *** Cancer Bitch comes to you from S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg in Chicago

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scalp design by Jennifer Berman in jagua ink

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Cancer Bitch recommends these links:

  • Alternet.org
  • As the Tumor Turns
  • Being Cancer--its on-line book club discusssed my book.
  • Big Grrls DO Cry: queer life meets precarious life
  • Black Gyrl Cancer Slayer
  • Breast Cancer Action
  • breastcancer.org
  • Chemo Chicks
  • Chronic (Illness) Babe
  • Code Pink women's peace group
  • Collaborative on Health and the Environment
  • Colon cancer cowgirl
  • Earth Henna
  • Friends of Cancer Bitch on Facebook
  • Funny Cancer shirts and mugs
  • Gayle Sulik, Pink Ribbon Blues
  • Geezer Sisters (tho' only written by one of them)
  • Get Real About Breast Cancer (w/ pic of Breast Cancer Barbie)
  • Gilda's Club
  • Goodbye to Boobs (by a pre-vivor)
  • Humerus Cartoons
  • I got the cancer (lymphoma)
  • Mamawhelming
  • Organic Consumers Assn.
  • Our Bodies, Our Blog
  • Paula Kamen
  • Planet Cancer
  • Recovery on Water
  • S.L. Wisenberg/Red Fish Studio
  • Skin Deep: un/safe cosmetic list
  • Stacey Richter's Land of Pain
  • Swimming in the Trees: author Jessica Handler of Atlanta
  • Tara Ison
  • Terry Tempest Williams
  • The Assertive Cancer Patient
  • The Cancer Culture Chronicles
  • The Fifty-Foot Blogger, another denizen of Fancy Hospital
  • Whirled News--better than the Onion
  • Women & Children First bookstore

NOTATE BENE

Everything here is as accurate as I could make it. Occasionally I've changed identifying details when writing about others.

Links to audio and video

  • Short interview w/ slide show, WTTW (click on my head shot)
  • pre-Bitch KUHF interview, 2001
  • Iowa Public Radio interview
  • Progressive Radio interview
  • Cancer Bitch series on Chicago Public Radio
  • Interview with Chronic Babe
  • Reading on Fora.tv

from my Farewell to My Left Breast party

from my Farewell to My Left Breast party
taramosalata & other dips; photo by Vera Szabó

Cancer Bitch--first design

Cancer Bitch--first design
Click on photo for Cancer Bitch reading dates

Farewell to My Left Breast Party

Farewell to My Left Breast Party
cream puffs, caprese; photo by Vera Szabó

April 12, 2007--The Making of the Mohawk

April 12, 2007--The Making of the Mohawk
Don't try this at home. Uh, oh, we did.

The Mohawk Profile

The Mohawk Profile
L the Haircutter in Background

The Mohawk Demure

The Mohawk Demure
Finished.

Summer henna-wear

Summer henna-wear
design by Jennifer Berman

Life after cancer, Budapest, July 2009

Life after cancer, Budapest, July 2009
At medicinal baths, with testimonials from patients
 
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