Lana Lin: Cancer Journals Revisited Film Screening & Conversation
About this Event
The Cancer Journals Revisited is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of the filmmaker, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Lorde’s manifesto aloud on camera, collectively dramatizing it and producing an oration for the screen. The film is both a critical commentary and a poetic reflection upon the precarious conditions of survival within the intimate and politicized public sphere of illness.
Lana Lin
Lana Lin is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy, 2025), which was a Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus “Best of the Year” for 2025, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and is a 2026 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography. Her previous book is Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (Fordham, 2017). Her writing has been published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Portable Gray, ASAP/Journal, Millennium Film Journal, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Asian American Literary Review. She has made award-winning experimental films and collaborative mixed media art (as “Lin + Lam”) that have screened and exhibited around the world. She is the recipient of fellowships including the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and four MacDowell residencies since 1996. lanalin.com; linpluslam.com
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Event Details
Tuesday, June 23 - 6:00PM
In the First Floor Mediatheque at @ Pacific Northwest College of Art 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209
In person only. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!
All images courtesy of the artist.
Cancer Journals Revisted, Film Still
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