Artists Chase Joynt and Mary Bryson swap stories about gender-reassignment surgery and cancer surgery in "Resisterectomy."
by Yasmin Nair
In 2007 Mary Bryson, a genderqueer artist and academic based in British Columbia, was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a double mastectomy, she found herself pressured by her doctor to undergo breast reconstruction, a procedure that would return her to a supposedly more desirable shape, which is to say a more womanly one.…[ Read more ]