Tornado

When award-winning author Mary Anne Mohanraj learned she had breast cancer, she immediately began recording the details in her blog. Tornado is her honest, day-by-day account of diagnosis, chemo, surgery, radiation, and reconstruction, over a three-year period.

One out of eight women gets breast cancer. You know someone who has it, or work with someone, or may have been diagnosed yourself. This is a book for all of us, but especially for anyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis for yourself, or for someone you love.

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How do we have productive political conversations with people who disagree with us?

Yesterday, various people responded to a post I made, where I mentioned that I’ve persuaded conservatives to change their positions; they asked how I did it. It’s complicated, but I’ll try to answer. If you have no interest in this topic, please just go on to the next post. I don’t think anyone has any obligation to try to reach across the aisle — especially people who are under direct and serious threat. This post

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These people were lied to

I’m getting a little tired of the FAFO and leopards eating faces comments — these people were lied to, consistently and comprehensively. They are mostly not paying close attention to political discourse, often because they’re scrabbling to keep themselves and their families afloat. I remember one summer when I had a shitty job with a two hour public transit commute each way — it was a bad economy, and the only job I could find,

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Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.

 

Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org).  She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  www.maryannemohanraj.com

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Vegan Serendib 99%
Jump Space 95%
Cancer Log 50%