War
A brief video
begging for your help.
Hi, I'm Meg Conley
I write Pocket Observatory, an attention reclamation project. Currently, my observations are being written as I navigate treatment for triple-negative breast cancer.
My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR.
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A Kind Note About My Work
Meg writes with a rigorous precision and emotional clarity I find genuinely intimidating, but also admire with a force I can only call love.
When powerful forces try to silence her, Conley handles their hostility with grace and power. But what I love about her is yet more fundamental: she keeps writing from inside difficult things, not above them.
Her insistence on remaining the specific person doing this specific work, even while battling breast cancer, is a staunch refusal to become anything smaller than the force she is. Meg makes me want to take up space.
When I want to close the laptop and disappear, I run a test: Would Meg do this? Would Meg be brave enough to say this out loud?
Always yes. And on chemo.
- Katherine de Vos Divine, IP Attorney and Art Historian
Newsletters
Raising daughters in the ICE age
and other overlapping catastrophic eras
Cancer
The Watcher
A brief transmission about Renee Good, cancer-induced isolation and hope
Cancer
You Can Call Me Poison Pussy. (But please don't.)
'Your pussy might poison people' was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.
Cancer
it's baby's first ambulance ride
...and she's lost her shirt
Cancer
I have breast cancer.
and other sentences I never wanted to write.
Can I tell you a funny story?
And also share some links to cool stuff