Cancer and Women’s Liberation
As I listen to Global Majority and Indigenous females from different nations and religious heritages and across age and class (especially women raised poor), I am struck [impressed] by how cancer appears to be a women’s liberation issue.
Cancer among females seems to be increasing. It often seems to be assaulting the female body in deliberate ways. How does the oppressive society make us vulnerable to this disease as females? In addition to the food we eat, where we live, the invisible toxins we absorb—can we examine how we are impacted as women? I know we are not at fault.
I recently listened to a woman in her thirties about her fear of cancer and how she was thinking pro-actively about her body’s health. She was working on it in an inter-related way that included early sexual memories and distress recordings related to her heritages. It made me feel hopeful that we can “take back our bodies.”
I welcome thinking on this topic. How do you gather information, use the discharge process, and learn from listening to other women?
Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of women
(Present Time 206, January 2022)