In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Chatham Community Library will host a virtual film screening of The Cancer Journals Revisited (2018), beginning Tuesday, October 17, and continuing through Tuesday, October 24, 2023.

The Cancer Journals Revisited is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Lorde’s manifesto aloud on camera, collectively dramatizing it and producing an oration for the screen. The film is both a critical commentary and a poetic reflection upon the precarious conditions of survival within the intimate and politicized public sphere of illness.

 Film Highlights and Awards: 

• BlackStar Film Festival, Audience Award for Favorite Experimental Film
• Best Feature Documentary, San Diego Asian Film Festival
• BAMcinématek
• Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival

Access to the virtual screening will be available beginning Tuesday, October 17, by clicking HERE.  A password is required at the time of viewing. 

Please contact social.library@chathamlibraries.org to request the password or for additional information.

This program is free and open to the public.