Reverend Irene Monroe delivers some stunning news this Tuesday, but the inspired activist is not about to wallow:

I have breast cancer. I tell you this to better accept the blow that has struck me.
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The weave of my everyday existence for the past twenty years has been about social injustice concerning race, class, gender identities and expressions as it relates to religious intolerance. But now I take up another gauntlet: the politics of breast cancer, because this too is personal…

Monroe also informs us she had surgery on December 24th and the cancer's in stage one, the tumor was tiny and there's no metastasis, or spreading. All that religious stuff must have paid off…