fake boob a nurse tried to make Audre Lorde wear a breast prosthesis after her mastectomy because to go without would be bad for the morale of the office and she was having none of it I refuse to hide my body simply because it might make a woman-phobic world more comfortable, she says and speaks of the dangerous fantasy of reconstruction I feel this so deeply I’m not putting a faith system back together just because people don't know what to do with someone like me * Notes: words in italics from Cancer Journals (Audre Lorde) p. 14, 60, 62
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So good!