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Why Wouldn’t Cancer Radicalize You?

by Liddy Grantland April 6, 2026

Walkers, wheelchairs, canes. Tattoos, skin grafts, port scars. Those just-growing-in chemo bobs and badass wigs. Jackets, handheld fans, water bottles.

The Emotions of Cancer

by Vikki Ramdass-Husain March 23, 2026

Let’s begin by listing the emotions that I have experienced since diagnosis. Before diagnosis, I was a quiet girl, never said much, kept to myself. Upon diagnosis, I became scared, fearful and disenchanted with life and everyone around me.

Rebuilding Myself, Rebuilding Others

by Ashley Rath March 16, 2026

There’s a line by Taylor Swift that has stuck with me: “Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.” For me, that saddest story began in March of 2021, when a sudden pain in my right breast sent me to the doctor. I was 39, busy with work and raising two young girls, and my OBGYN thought it would be nothing more than a cyst.

Embracing Every Emotion: My Path as a Pediatric Survivor

by Mercades Fisher

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a cancer buddy, and he recommended I try to submit this article. I always felt like I couldn’t become friends with people from Elephants and Tea because I was so young with my cancer diagnosis.

My Invisible Illness

by Kristen Stewart March 2, 2026

While it’s been 6 years since my emergency brain surgery and discovery of my rare brain tumor, whenever I unexpectedly hear the word cancer in the media or in a conversation nearby, I cringe. It’s a surreal reaction.

Uninvited

by Wendi Korth February 23, 2026

Dear Cancer, I never invited you in. You barged into my life unannounced, unwelcomed, and completely unraveled the world I had worked so hard to hold together.

A Shadow of My Shadow

by Annamaria Scaccia

Sept. 30, 2020. 11:30 a.m. “It’s cancer” Death, For the last five years, I have thought about nothing but death, death, dying, the act of dying

Growing Pains

by Kat Jackson February 2, 2026

I thank you yet despise you for the aftermath of hell you reign over my life. Down to fragments, I hardly recognize what used to even be my life before abolishing everything I once used to know about myself.

You Knew Me First

by Adrienne Holland Hubbard January 26, 2026

There’s so much to say, isn’t there? You knew me long before I knew you. An invisible string was always there, binding us to one another.

From Ghost to Girl

by Chelsey Gomez

Fight, flight, or freeze—they’re natural reactions to things that scare us. A tornado bearing down, a shadowy figure in the night, or, perhaps scariest of all, the thought of dying. For most people, death is just a passing thought, something far off in the future—until it’s not.