Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer
“In dusty pink office after dusty pink office, nurses looked at Deena’s chest, then at me, then at her chest again, then at her file, like she was some kind of a puzzle, like she was the first butch woman they had ever met, like maybe we were in the wrong place because gender presentation and breast cancer had never before intersected in the entire history of the most common cancer among adults in the world.”
Not only does the reader experience, as Deena and Ariel do, the immorality of health care and insurance in the United States, where decisions are often made without input from the patient, but we also learn that manufacturers of cancer medications have corporate brethren that make the carcinogens potentially responsible for our diagnoses. We see how much money the Susan G. Komen organization raises while intentionally highlighting stories from those whose lived experience with cancer has the desired happy ending that capitalism so often demands of us, while at the same time paying the foundation’s executives six-figure salaries.
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