Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer
One of the best aspects of Rehearsals for Dying is Ariel’s focus on expanding the reader’s understanding both of breast cancer itself — the problematic diagnoses, the sometimes supercilious doctors, the medications and treatments — and also of those whose lived experiences include cancer. Particularly saddening for me was learning about Earl, a trans man who, on the verge of undergoing gender affirmation surgery, is told he has breast cancer, and the struggles Earl therefore endures in his attempts to find treatment from medical personnel who can both understand and honor Earl in that treatment.
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