Last Cut Conversations With Samantha Paige

SO1.9: Vonn Jensen: Flattopper Pride

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What is most true to you? How are you living it? “I feel like what I have come back to, or come into, is honoring myself first. Which is something that I never knew how to do. I’m still learning it. It’s really amazing. Yeah, the concept of self-care. I can talk about it over and over and tell people what to do. But radical self-care is revolutionary.” ~Vonn Jensen, US-based cancer advocate and founder of Flattopper Pride and Queer Cancer. Vonn Jensen (formerly Emily Jensen) is a US-based cancer advocate and vanguard approaching advocacy through the lens of social justice. They founded the movements, Flattopper® Pride and Queer Cancer, and work specifically with populations often disenfranchised or rendered invisible in the dominant breast cancer narrative. Using a variety of media, they have worked for visibility as a means of combating the marginalization that certain groups, such as the queer community, face during treatment. Jensen is currently working with filmmaker Emily Mackenzie on Tapestries, a docum