Caitlin Carmody, membership coordinator of Breast Cancer Action, wrote a thoughtful and insightful post on BCA’s Think Before You Pink blog. She notes that many awareness campaigns focus on individual choices, lifestyles, and behaviors (which can be personally empowering), but they tend to forget about “the context in which breast cancer risk and diagnosis occurs.”
The context might include language barriers, access to healthy food or adequate health insurance, safe working and living environments, and the kinds of protections that guarantee the safety of all those products that line the shelves of our stores. Carmody writes:
“This October, I am reminded that justice is not comprised of a million individual choices made in private lives. It is about a lived public commitment to just systems, systems that ensure the protection of everyone’s health.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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