Suleika Jaouad on Breaking the Illness Narrative

Feb 10

“I think the usual moment that people speak to or write to in an illness narrative is the moment of diagnosis and I feel like it’s often described as like a bifurcation. There’s a life before a diagnosis, whether it’s cancer or something else, and the life that comes after.”

Suleika Jaouad is an Emmy Award-winning writer, speaker, cancer survivor, and activist. Her book, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, is out now. She served on Barack Obama's President's Cancer Panel, and her advocacy work, reporting, and speaking has been featured at the United Nations, on Capitol Hill, and on the TED Talk main stage. When she's not on the road with her 1972 Volkswagen camper van and her rescue dog Oscar, she lives in Brooklyn.

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Suleika Jaouad on Breaking the Illness Narrative

“I think the usual moment that people speak to or write to in an illness narrative is the moment of diagnosis and I feel like it’s often described as like a bifurcation. There’s a life before a diagnosis, whether it’s cancer or something else, and the life that comes after.”

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