MBC & the LGBTQ2S+ Community

We wish all members of the LGBTQ2S+ community a happy PRIDE month filled with love, respect, action, and support that extends to every month of the year.

In today's episode, we wanted to shed light on the issues facing the members of the LGBTQ2S+ community living with Breast Cancer and on social determinants of health and health inequities. Co-host Natalia Green speaks with Dr. Evan Taylor, an assistant professor in Social Work and Human Services at the University of the Fraser Valley and the co-founder of Queering Cancer, Kimiko Tobimatsu, a Canadian human rights lawyer and an award-winning graphic novelist, and the two members of Our MBC Life family Bob DeVito and Rainy Orteca, who are part of the LGBTQ2S+ community

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE and ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Kimiko Tobimatsu - Kimiko Does Cancer, graphic memoir about the author’s experience navigating cancer as a young, queer, mixed-race woman.

Breast Cancer and The Lesbian Community

Callen-Lorde Community Health Center provides sensitive, quality health care and related services targeted to New York’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities

OUT: The Community Survey

LGBT Patient-Centered Outcomes

National LGBT Cancer Network

Teva Harrison - In Between Days - graphic novel

Cancer’s Margins - Canada’s community-and-arts based project to explore sexual and gender diversity, and experiences of cancer health, support and care

Cancer survivors' access to care and quality of life: Do sexual minorities fare worse than heterosexuals?

Meet the Guests of this Episode

Evan Taylor, BSW, MSW, RSW, PhD

Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Services at University of the Fraser Valley
Co-Founder Queering Cancer
Doing Cancer While Trans*: Biopolitical Intersections of Gendered Embodiment and Cancer Regimes

Kimiko Tobimatsu

Canadian Employment and Human Rights Lawyer
Owner Kimiko and Co.
Graphic Memoir Kimiko Does Cancer

No one should face MBC alone.
Whether you have a diagnosis yourself, or you're a friend, family member or caregiver of someone with a diagnosis, we're here to lend support, give information, share experiences, and to lift you up every time you need it. Research has proven that having the support we need during our most challenging times is paramount to honing coping skills and striving for wellness. Our supportive network is made of people just like you, who DO know what it's like, who HAVE been there, who CAN help.