Fertility & maybe
I don't want to hear about your pregnancy today. I'll want to tomorrow.
On loving your friends and protecting yourself at the same time.
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For the life you didn't plan
You don't have to figure out your whole future right now.
This is a space for women in their 30s whose lives were changed by cancer. Some of us want kids. Some of us aren't sure anymore. Some of us are just trying to remember what we like for breakfast. You're welcome here wherever you are.
"I don't want cancer to define my life. But pretending it didn't change me doesn't feel right either."
From a reader, 34, Toronto
Recent essays
Issue 01What we write about
Start wherever feels true today.
- Who I am nowIdentity, after everything shifted
- Fertility & maybeWanting kids, not knowing, or not wanting them
- Love & datingPartners, first dates, and telling people
- FriendshipWhen everyone else's life keeps moving
- Work & purposeAmbition, rest, and what matters now
- Small joysLetting good things in without pretending
What this place is.
And what it isn't.
We're not doctors, and this isn't medical advice. We're not going to tell you to be grateful, or that everything happens for a reason. It doesn't, and you don't owe anyone a silver lining.
What we can offer is honest writing, real stories from women who've been there, and resources we'd actually send a friend. You don't need to call yourself a survivor to belong here. You don't need to be done with treatment, either.
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