Cancer Runs in My Family

Cancer runs in my family is a poem turned performance piece that explores my curiosities around the fact that Cancer only seems to run in my family on the Southern side. The performance takes sound bits from conversations within my family and turns them into a soundscape that details a torrid medical history. I am pondering the ever-present oppressive fog of racism and poverty that has shaped my families’ passages’ to the afterlife. I ask Where and how can black folks in the south find places of freedom from a system that is so ingrained it's in our very DNA.