In this episode, MK Czerwiec interviews Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza about their recent book, Kimiko Does Cancer. They discuss working on the book during a pandemic, what it was like to work with each other and more.
Links to sites mentioned in the episode:
- The book’s website: https://www.kimikodoescancer.com/
- Keet’s Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/makeshiftlove
- Kimiko’s Etsy, including cancer cards: https://www.etsy.com/shop/kimikoandco
You can buy the book and support us by using this link from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/books/kimiko-does-cancer-a-graphic-memoir/9781551528199?aid=1457
Support for this podcast comes from Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, the nation’s oldest Humanities Department within a medical school, pioneers of innovations in medical education since 1967.
[…] This is a graphic memoir about being diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoing treatments. Kimiko Tobimatsu critiques mainstream cancer narrative while being a part of it herself. As a “young, queer, mixed-race woman” she provides a new perspective on the breast cancer experience (from publisher description). You can hear the Graphic Medicine podcast interviewing the creators at https://www.graphicmedicine.org/new-podcast-episode-kimiko-tobimatsu-and-keet-geniza-on-kimiko-does-…. […]