Event overview
A talk exploring the politics and ethics of cancer storytelling through media.
This event is hosted by the School of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS) as part of the MCCS Community Lectures series. It is open to all staff, students, and members of the public.
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This talk will present the project, Living in Queer Cancer World: Our Stories, which is a practice-based theory-led collaboration between Goldsmiths Media led by Prof Lisa Blackman, and OUTpatients, the queer LGBTQIA+ cancer charity based in Dalston. The project includes 8 short films contributed by members of the LGBTQIA+ community living with and beyond cancer, and 4 stories contributed as part of a digital storytelling project, led by Ceiren Bell (Goldsmiths) and Steve Wyborn (Kingston Uni). The project director, Lisa Blackman will be in conversation with some of the contributors to discuss the ethics and politics of creating queer cancer content.
The talk will present a showreel from the films introducing the storytellers, and open to some of the bigger questions the project explores. This includes what is distinctive about queer cancer narratives, what do they look and feel like, and what are some of the politics and ethical issues of creating content within a very crowded and highly mediated cancer storytelling environment. This includes the communication and miscommunication of cancer, such as the challenges of cancer misinformation and fake news and the flooding of social media with nonsense. Storytelling across media platforms is big business, and no more so than in the context of cancer, including the economics and politics of what and who gets seen and heard –which stories are picked up and amplified by legacy media, and which do not gain traction, and why?
Learn more about Living in Queer Cancer World: Our Stories
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 Dec 2025 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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