Athena Aktipis
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first heard Jan 2026
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And they're also because they're like they're structurally beautiful, really.
It's a way that I think we can engage with cancer that is emotionally more accessible and has a framing that works.
I think for a lot of people feels more inviting than other ways of thinking about cancer.
And we actually created a garden here with crested cacti to kind of teach about how cancer is this phenomenon that exists across life.
And so kind of cultivating it as a space for people to go to, to remember people who've been affected by cancer and to,
you know, using it as a way of thinking about how can we live with cancer as opposed to just like fighting it.
So, um, yeah.
So I love, I love, you know, plant cancers and you know, the, what they, what they do for us on so many levels in terms of thinking about like what cancer is, how it manifests and, um, and, and with plants, a lot of times they can survive with these faciations.
Um,
They're more vulnerable often than plants that don't have effaciations.
But if they're taken care of, they can thrive.
And so, you know, there's a lot of like nice metaphors there.
Right.
For thinking about how we can deal with cancer differently.
Yeah.
Yeah, so plants, totally awesome, right?
Like they're just so cool.
And we, you know, I think a lot of times we sort of are, you know, not just anthropocentric in terms of thinking about like how the rest of life works, but like mammalian centric.
And, you know, a lot of plants, there's a huge amount of genetic diversity that exists like within them, right?
Like different branches will be like really genetically different.
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