naama carlin“For years other people made me feel like my body wasn’t right, as if part of my body belonged to someone else and they had a right to it. Fucked if I’ll let this happen again. I looked at myself for the first time in so many years with actual care and saw not a body that tried to kill me, but a body surviving. I noticed its resilience and how it tried to conserve and protect me.”
In the summer edition of Meanjin, you can find my latest memoir: an uncharacteristically optimistic piece, about how a mastectomy - despite being quite pinkwashed/overlooked by the Breast Cancer Industrial Complex - allowed me to gain self acceptance.
& if you’re not already tired of reading about cancer, you can pre-order your copy now, or even better: subscribe
https://www.mup.com.au/books/meanjin-vol-81-no-4-paperback-softback
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[image marked as sensitive as it's of Mx scar. Lmk if you think images such as this don't need/do need sensitive warning]
Meanjin Vol 81, No 4,
'Australia Where' is the coverline for the December 2022 edition of Meanjin, Jonathan Green's last as editor. Various essays in this edition address elements of national character and direction. Historian Mark McKenna's 'Australia in Four Referendums' looks at the recent sweep of referendum history since the momentous 1967 vote: "In 1999, we effectively told our First Nations' people that ad...