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How Cancer Treatment “Treated” Me: A Graphic Story

Cissy White — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:13:19 +0000

Cancer and fun rarely go together in a sentence but when creativity, curiosity, and a community gather to combine words and images to capture our complicated, cancer-related experiences – it is fun! And healing – even though the topics being explored – death, diagnosis, brutal treatments, and side effects, and countless losses, are heavy and […]

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Survivor-Led Advocacy Initiatives (1)

Cissy White — Sat, 21 May 2016 20:18:43 +0000

I saw how infrequently people who are supposedly being served are never even asked, "What do you need or need?" by those giving what they consider to be help.

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Boston Globe, Edited Version of Lock Down Experience & Writing to Process

Cissy White — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:36:54 +0000

Here is an edited version of the lock down experience, from a parent perspective, last week. It’s my first time being published in The Boston Globe.

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Vets Speak & Warrior Writers, 1

Cissy White — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:00:10 +0000

Indictment by Maurice Decaul Women walked up to beg help, to share images of loved ones, hoping maybe we had seen their boys & men. Once a woman brought a baby balled up in a sheet she said “you” bombed out the city lights, that “I” was cooking in darkness that “my” child’s misfortune is […]

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Topic – Trauma and PTSD

Cissy White — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:22:10 +0000

Frank Ochberg, one of the first people I have heard talk about the damage to the mother/child relationship when the mother is the non-offending parent as well as speaking in an accessible style.

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