breastless

breastless is the most personal of all my projects.

Cancer always sucks. And I got so lucky. I had the earliest stage of breast cancer and after many doubts and questions, I woke up breastless, after the operation, and couldn’t have been happier. It still puzzles me sometimes how transformative this has been for me.

I made quite a few notes and started to write the book I would have loved to read the day after I got my diagnosis, but presently I have put the book on hold.

Saying this, there is a website (www.breastless.net) and by now it offers a few new pages: a peek at my story, an almost poetic piece about breasts, some thoughts about the visions for the breastless project and some input on Charlie Alice cooks. I hope to squeeze in the odd hour to share some more of my story and with that some hope, I hope.

For the Charlie Alice Raya website, I wrote a post about gender and breastless which offers some insights.

This project is not just for the breastless or the half-breasters of all gender and backgrounds. It’s also a project for those dealing with overwork, with questions around gender, with cancer, and on a more general note with imbalances in our lives and bodies.

I hope to open this project to many voices, contributors and those in search of encouragement and hope.

For more check www.breastless.net >