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My lovely, badass friend and performance artist Caro is going through surgery and treatment for breast cancer. She had it once before and now it is back again. She needs support for her treatments (see the breakdown below) and the world needs to know about her and support her life!
After her first diagnosis, when she was 35, she responded by creating the performance project oncogrrrls. Since then more than 100 people (so far) have engaged in creative processes with her about the challenges of living with cancer in our societies, in Spain, Mexico, and the United States. She has spent the last 10 years organizing art with others and creating 'cancer communities', making the 'isolating' cancer experience an opportunity for collective art making and environmental, health, and social justice in collaboration with cancer activist movements such as Breast Cancer Action.
Look at her amazing work with cancer here: http://oncogrrrls.art
She is not only a badass, generous and caring person, she is also a brilliant, creative, and intelligent soul -- someone who puts all her energy in learning, staying curious, and creating spaces for 'togethering' and social healing. She has spent 10 years working in her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California Davis, exploring ways to facilitate health activist workshops through art making processes. Or in other words, "onco-creation" :P. Caro says that as long as there is unequal access to health treatments and pollution impacting communities in uneven ways, we all have cancer. Caro brings people together. She is an activist, an artist, an educator, a 'cancer doula' and a healer. And we love her.
Navigating medical expenses in the US is exhausting and isolating. While she has coverage through her student health insurance, it will end soon: Caro just finished her Ph.D. and while in the transitional moment, cancer treatment costs are making this moment too challenging to breath calmly. She is facing medical and extra expenses up to $19.500. It breaks down:
Diagnostic tests (several mamos, ultrasounds, biopsies, stereotoptic guided biopsies, MRI's, doctor's visits)- 5000
Medical counseling (genetic tests, second visits, counselors) 1000
Treatment (Surgery (lumpectomy), Radiotherapy 5x5, medication, follow up doctor's visits) -6.700
Covering PPO health insurance - 5.040
Extras (gasoline- daily car trips to/from Davis-Sacramento, postage of medical records, after visit treats )- 1.800
We live in a place where healthcare is not provided as the right it is but has to be pieced together in fragments through narrative appeals on social media. There are so many narratives of care work I could offer of Caro, but here's one by her friend Jessica Stokes: "WhenI couldn’t afford my wheelchair in Davis, Caro helped support me with a dance party/fundraiser to put me on a roll again. She’s full of beautiful healing love and play and silliness in this dystopia. Please help however you can".
And many of us, her friends, are behind her and this petition. See [below] what else her friends have to say:
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Hola!!!
Mi encantadora y tremenda amiga y artista/performancera Caro está con operaciones y tratamientos de cancer de pecho. Ya tuvo uno y ahora ha vuelto. Necesita apoyo económico y el mundo necesita conocerla y sostener su vida!!
A raíz de su primer diagnóstico, con 35, creó el proyecto oncogrrrls. Desde entonces, mas de 100 personas (de momento) han participado en procesos creativos con ella sobre los retos de vivir con cáncer en nuestras sociedades, en España, México y Estados Unidos. Ha pasado los últimos 10 años organizando arte colectivo y creando “onco-roridades”. Ha transformado las experiencias solitarias y aisladas de muchas personas en procesos de conexión, y ha hecho de cáncer, una oportunidad para la transformación colectiva y la justicia en salud, medioambiental y social. Y Lo sigue haciendo en colaboración con personas y organizaciones vinculadas al activismo oncológico como Breast Cancer Action.
Conoce algo de su tremendo trabajo aqui: http://oncogrrrls.art
Caro no es solo una persona tremenda, generosa y cariñosa, es también un alma brillante, creativa e inteligente- y pone toda su energía en aprender, mantenerse curiosa, y en crear espacios para ‘estar juntas’ y la sanación social. En los ultimos años ha desarrollado su investigacion doctoral en la Universidad de California, en Davis, explorando maneras para facilitar talleres de activismo sanitario mediante procesos creativos. En otras palabras, “onco-creaciones’ :P Caro dice que mientras el acceso a la sanidad sea desigual y los impactos de la polución beneficien a unos pocos y perjudique al resto, todas tenemos cáncer. Caro reúne a las personas. Es una activista, artista, educadora, curandera y ‘cancer doula’. Y la amamos.
Navegar los gastos médicos en Estados Unidos es agotador y solitario. Caro recién defendió su tesis de doctorado y está en momento de tránsito. Los costes del tratamiento están haciendo este transito demasiado difícil, y le cuesta respirar tranquila. Los gastos médicos y los extras de varios meses de proceso de diagnostico y tratamiento suben casi 20.000 US dólares.
Pruebas diagnósticas (varias mamos, ecos, biopsias- simples y guiadas- MRI y visitas médicas )5000
Pruebas y consejo diagnostico secundario : tests genéticos, segundas visitas: 1000
Tratamiento (Cirugía- lumpectomy), radioterapia 5 Dias x semana, 5 semanas, medicamentos y seguimiento -6.700
Seguro Médico: 5.040
Extras (gasolina- daily car trips to/from Davis-Sacramento, after visit treats, postage of medical records )- 1.800
Vivimos en un lugar donde la cobertura medica no existe como el derecho que es, sino que se tiene que conseguir a pedacitos, vía llamados en las redes sociales. Hay muchísimas anécdotas que os puedo ofrecer sobre Caro y sus cuidados, pero os dejo esta de su amiga Jessica Stokes: “Cuando no podia comprar mi silla de ruedas en Davis, Caro me ayudo a conseguir el dinero organizando una fiesta bailarina para que pudiera rodar de nuevo. Está llena de amor juguetón, sanador y alegre en este mundo distópico. Por favor, ayúdala como puedas”
Muchas de nosotras, sus amigas, estamos con ella y esta petición, lee todo lo que tenemos que decir:
HER FRIENDS:
"She is one of those rare human beings that brings something new into this world on the daily, and I have personally been the beneficiary of her collaborative creativity, her dynamic thinking and her kindness". Please help if you can. (Colin Johnson)
My lovely, badass friend and performance artist Caro is going through surgery and treatment for breast cancer. She had it once before and now it is back again. She needs support for her treatments (see the breakdown below) and the world needs to know about her and support her life!
After her first diagnosis, when she was 35, she responded by creating the performance project oncogrrrls. Since then more than 100 people (so far) have engaged in creative processes with her about the challenges of living with cancer in our societies, in Spain, Mexico, and the United States. She has spent the last 10 years organizing art with others and creating 'cancer communities', making the 'isolating' cancer experience an opportunity for collective art making and environmental, health, and social justice in collaboration with cancer activist movements such as Breast Cancer Action.
Look at her amazing work with cancer here: http://oncogrrrls.art
She is not only a badass, generous and caring person, she is also a brilliant, creative, and intelligent soul -- someone who puts all her energy in learning, staying curious, and creating spaces for 'togethering' and social healing. She has spent 10 years working in her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California Davis, exploring ways to facilitate health activist workshops through art making processes. Or in other words, "onco-creation" :P. Caro says that as long as there is unequal access to health treatments and pollution impacting communities in uneven ways, we all have cancer. Caro brings people together. She is an activist, an artist, an educator, a 'cancer doula' and a healer. And we love her.
Navigating medical expenses in the US is exhausting and isolating. While she has coverage through her student health insurance, it will end soon: Caro just finished her Ph.D. and while in the transitional moment, cancer treatment costs are making this moment too challenging to breath calmly. She is facing medical and extra expenses up to $19.500. It breaks down:
Diagnostic tests (several mamos, ultrasounds, biopsies, stereotoptic guided biopsies, MRI's, doctor's visits)- 5000
Medical counseling (genetic tests, second visits, counselors) 1000
Treatment (Surgery (lumpectomy), Radiotherapy 5x5, medication, follow up doctor's visits) -6.700
Covering PPO health insurance - 5.040
Extras (gasoline- daily car trips to/from Davis-Sacramento, postage of medical records, after visit treats )- 1.800
We live in a place where healthcare is not provided as the right it is but has to be pieced together in fragments through narrative appeals on social media. There are so many narratives of care work I could offer of Caro, but here's one by her friend Jessica Stokes: "WhenI couldn’t afford my wheelchair in Davis, Caro helped support me with a dance party/fundraiser to put me on a roll again. She’s full of beautiful healing love and play and silliness in this dystopia. Please help however you can".
And many of us, her friends, are behind her and this petition. See [below] what else her friends have to say:
*********
Hola!!!
Mi encantadora y tremenda amiga y artista/performancera Caro está con operaciones y tratamientos de cancer de pecho. Ya tuvo uno y ahora ha vuelto. Necesita apoyo económico y el mundo necesita conocerla y sostener su vida!!
A raíz de su primer diagnóstico, con 35, creó el proyecto oncogrrrls. Desde entonces, mas de 100 personas (de momento) han participado en procesos creativos con ella sobre los retos de vivir con cáncer en nuestras sociedades, en España, México y Estados Unidos. Ha pasado los últimos 10 años organizando arte colectivo y creando “onco-roridades”. Ha transformado las experiencias solitarias y aisladas de muchas personas en procesos de conexión, y ha hecho de cáncer, una oportunidad para la transformación colectiva y la justicia en salud, medioambiental y social. Y Lo sigue haciendo en colaboración con personas y organizaciones vinculadas al activismo oncológico como Breast Cancer Action.
Conoce algo de su tremendo trabajo aqui: http://oncogrrrls.art
Caro no es solo una persona tremenda, generosa y cariñosa, es también un alma brillante, creativa e inteligente- y pone toda su energía en aprender, mantenerse curiosa, y en crear espacios para ‘estar juntas’ y la sanación social. En los ultimos años ha desarrollado su investigacion doctoral en la Universidad de California, en Davis, explorando maneras para facilitar talleres de activismo sanitario mediante procesos creativos. En otras palabras, “onco-creaciones’ :P Caro dice que mientras el acceso a la sanidad sea desigual y los impactos de la polución beneficien a unos pocos y perjudique al resto, todas tenemos cáncer. Caro reúne a las personas. Es una activista, artista, educadora, curandera y ‘cancer doula’. Y la amamos.
Navegar los gastos médicos en Estados Unidos es agotador y solitario. Caro recién defendió su tesis de doctorado y está en momento de tránsito. Los costes del tratamiento están haciendo este transito demasiado difícil, y le cuesta respirar tranquila. Los gastos médicos y los extras de varios meses de proceso de diagnostico y tratamiento suben casi 20.000 US dólares.
Pruebas diagnósticas (varias mamos, ecos, biopsias- simples y guiadas- MRI y visitas médicas )5000
Pruebas y consejo diagnostico secundario : tests genéticos, segundas visitas: 1000
Tratamiento (Cirugía- lumpectomy), radioterapia 5 Dias x semana, 5 semanas, medicamentos y seguimiento -6.700
Seguro Médico: 5.040
Extras (gasolina- daily car trips to/from Davis-Sacramento, after visit treats, postage of medical records )- 1.800
Vivimos en un lugar donde la cobertura medica no existe como el derecho que es, sino que se tiene que conseguir a pedacitos, vía llamados en las redes sociales. Hay muchísimas anécdotas que os puedo ofrecer sobre Caro y sus cuidados, pero os dejo esta de su amiga Jessica Stokes: “Cuando no podia comprar mi silla de ruedas en Davis, Caro me ayudo a conseguir el dinero organizando una fiesta bailarina para que pudiera rodar de nuevo. Está llena de amor juguetón, sanador y alegre en este mundo distópico. Por favor, ayúdala como puedas”
Muchas de nosotras, sus amigas, estamos con ella y esta petición, lee todo lo que tenemos que decir:
HER FRIENDS:
"She is one of those rare human beings that brings something new into this world on the daily, and I have personally been the beneficiary of her collaborative creativity, her dynamic thinking and her kindness". Please help if you can. (Colin Johnson)
Organizer and beneficiary
Carolina Novella
Beneficiary