The piece is a raw meditation on motherhood, mortality, and the Kennedy legacy, written after Schlossberg was given less than a year to live. She passed away on December 30, 2025, just weeks after its publication. Key Themes and Content A Battle with My Blood - The New Yorker

" A Battle with My Blood " is a poignant personal essay by Tatiana Schlossberg , an environmental journalist and the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy. Published in The New Yorker on November 22, 2025, the essay revealed her diagnosis with a terminal form of featuring a rare "Inversion 3" mutation.