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• I’m Not The Perfect Cancer Survivor. But I’ve Learned To Live With That
• Book Review: Hospital Land USA
• Book Review: Hiding Politics in Plain Sight
• Breast Cancer Consortium Quarterly (Issue 3)
• A few words about Jody Schoger
• BCC Quarterly (Issue 2) Is Out!
• We Love You, Jody
• The Good Breast, A Documentary
• So Much To Be Done:The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
• If You Really Want to Help Cancer Research, Don’t Give Money to the NFL
• Being happy does not help you live longer
• Backlash Against Pinkwashing of Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns
• How should we address breast cancer when norms continually change?
• BCC Special Issue – By Your Side: Being A Caregiver
• Review: Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book
• BCAM Wall of Shame – Solis Mammography’s P.I.N.K. Campaign
• BCAM Wall of Shame – Pornhub
• It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Let’s Do Something Different This Year
• Period, end of discussion? Not so fast. Breast surgeon sidesteps mammography screening debate.
• BCC Quarterly (Issue 3)
• “The Teal Before the Pink” Featured in OUPblog Anniversary Collection
• Visualizing Social Change: The Power of Graphic Arts
• BCCQ (2015, Issue 2)
• Pink Ribbon Purge
• Shaping Women’s Lives – Our Bodies, Ourselves
• In Memoriam, Lisa Bonchek Adams
• Resisting the Unbearable Weight of the Pink Ribbon
• Breast Cancer Consortium Quarterly 2015 (1) Is Out!
• I remember you: For Rachel
• Waiting for Cancer to Come – A Book Review
• Breast Cancer Consortium Quarterly (Issue 4)
• Breast Cancer Action Featured on The Daily Show
• Why I voted for a Frack Free Denton
• Catch up on stories you may have missed this month
• #RethinkPink Postcards
• Overpass Girl: The Power of Anonymity
• Reflecting on Breast Cancer Awareness
• Teaching Pink Ribbon Culture
• Rethinking Pink: How This Work Started, And Why It Continues
• The Teal before the Pink: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
• Feminism, Furiousness, and Fair Use
• Decision-making in the midst of medical un/certainty
• Pink Ribbon Blues in hospital gift shop
• A Call for Elevated Science and Honorable Dialogue
• Documenting the invisible scars of breast cancer treatment
• Is This Science or Censorship?
• BCC Quarterly Is Out! (Issue 2)
• The Cause Marketing Dilemma
• A Year After Bombings, Some Say ‘Boston Strong’ Has Gone Overboard – NPR Interview
• Time to debunk the mammography myth
• Mar. 18: Sulik Keynote at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA
• Kohl’s Cash for the Cure Pretties Up Breast Cancer
• BCC Quarterly Is Out (2014, Issue 1)
• The PINK White Elephant
• Addition Of Screening Mammograms Adds No Benefit, But Causes Harm
• The Politics of Pink
• Review of “A Breast Cancer Alphabet” by Madhulika Sikka
• Are there ethics to tweeting your illness?
• Yes Mamm?
• Amy Robach Story Spreads Heartfelt Misinformation About Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer Consortium Quarterly is Out (2013, Issue 4)
• The Mammogram Myth, Alive and Well on Good Morning America
• On this last day of breast cancer awareness month, know this:
• Cause Marketing Is Not Philanthropy
• “Just Say No” to Pinkwashing!
• Thinking About Rachel, Always Resisting Pinkwashing
• Hooked on the “Pink Sizzle”
• Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
• Buying Pink? I’ll be on Al Jazeera’s The Stream Friday, 7:30EST to discuss.
• Riding the tails of the pink ribbon
• Congratulations to Christie Aschwanden, 2013 Science in Society Journalism Awards
• The She-ro
• Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation Teams with Susan G. Komen and Young Survival Coalition to Document the Collateral Damage of Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer, Concept Brand with Pink Ribbon Logo
• BCC Newsletter (2013, Issue 3)
• Komen, Still Spreading Screening Hype
• “Carcinoma”: What’s in a name?
• Chemoprevention Is No Magic Bullet
• Life-saving drugs, lethal prices
• Why Jolie’s cancer test costs so much
• Angelina Jolie and the One Percent
• The Mammography Debate: To Screen or Not to Screen?
• Celebrity Breasts and Corporate Gene Patents
• In Honor and Memory of Barbara Brenner
• Breast Cancer Consortium Quarterly, Second Issue
• “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer”
• Patients, Patents, and Profits in a Genomic Age
• Rights or Rhetoric? Breast reconstruction and the yet-to-be-tapped market of breast cancer survivors
• Here’s my interview on WISH
• International Women’s Day, and the WISH Summit
• Remembrances
• On the moral necessity of love in action: The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Adieu Marie-Laurence Waldelöf
• Sexy Breast Cancer Campaigns DO Demean Women. So What?
• Do Sexy Breast Cancer Campaigns Demean Women?
• Confessions of a Recovering Pink Addict
• The Adventures of “Pink Lady”
• Connecting the Pepto Pink Dots: Why Pink Ribbons and Screening Are Not Enough
• Paralyzed or Catalyzed?
• Where’s the Feminism in the Awareness?
• Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day: October 13th
• “Faun and Me”
• The calendar comes back to it each year. The day she found out about her breast cancer.
• “What I wish people knew about breast cancer…”
• Broke: The Cost of Breast Cancer
• Announcing the Breast Cancer Consortium
• The false narratives of pink ribbon month, redux
• Promises of Hope. Not Cure.
• As Komen’s brand falters, some are calling on Brinker to lead
• Changing the Conversation about Breast Cancer, One Conversation at a Time
• Pink Ribbon Blues Blog Moves To pinkribbonblues.org
• Komen leadership in flux
• The trouble with Komen: Misusing statistics/Generating false hope
• “The Battle They Don’t Want to See”
• “Keep the Race Moving Toward the Cure”
• The Great Hormone Therapy Debate, Ten Years After the Women’s Health Initiative Said, “STOP.”
• You Know What’s NOT Sexy?
• “BREAST CANCER AWARENESS PITCH”
• Memo to the “Hippest Town in NJ:” Please Stop Painting Yourself Pink
• I Didn’t Know Then What I Know Now
• Students at Michigan State University Discuss Pink Ribbon Blues as an Exemplar of Feminist Research
• A Research Grant Changed My Life
• Context is Everything — Framing the Film Pink Ribbons, Inc.
• Has Komen ‘Lost the Brand’?
• “Pink Ribbon Blues” at SCSU!
• “The Emperor Has No Clothes”: Komen for the Cure Exposed
• The real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
• Celebration of Rachel Cheetham Moro
• Rachel Cheetham Moro 1970-2012
• Beyond Hypocrisy: Komen for the Cure’s Assault on Women’s Health
• The Language of Breast Cancer
• SOPA and PIPA: What It Could Mean for Your Blog
• What Lies Beneath
• Breast Cancer and the Environment – Report from the IOM
• 30. “Pink Ribbon Blues” – A Poem
• 29. A Portrait of Cathie Malhouitre: Uncompromising, Unembellished Reality
• 28. The Intervention Begins With Us!
• 27. March, Run, or Streak to a Different Drummer!
• 26. “Daring to be Powerful”
• 25. Being a “Change Agent” with Clinical Trials
• 24. “Survival” and “Cure” are NOT Interchangeable Words
• 23. Tracking the Big “K”
• 22. Pinking the Global Landscape, and the Global Market
• 21. Navigating the Charity World with IRS Form 990: Uses and Limitations
• 20. Industry Ties to Nonprofits
• 19. Birth of the Perpetual Fundraising Industry
• 18. Advertising WHAT???
• 17. Excerpt from “Being Sarah”
• 16. Loss and Remembering: A Story of Heather Beyer
• 15. The Cloud that Doesn’t Go Away
• 14. The Cancer Show: A Cast of Thousands
• 13. Medical Progress and Stage 4 Breast Cancer, Re-Learning the Lessons from Elizabeth Edwards’ Death
• 11. “After the Cure”
• 10. {ReThink Your Pitch} Q&A With A National Brand Over Breast Cancer…
• 9. Pink Ribbons, Inc.
• 8. Taking Action Against Pinkwashing: An Interview with Breast Cancer Action’s Karuna Jaggar
• 7. The Dream of Eradication
• 6. Critical Health Literacy and Evidence-Based Practice
• 5. Watch Out For Junk News
• 4. Factoids, Impressions, and Impressions
• 3. Factoids and Impressions
• 2. “Left Behind”
• 1. The Inspirational Vs. The Actual
• 30 Days of Breast Cancer Awareness – 2011
• The Teal before the Pink: Ovarian Cancer Awareness
• Status Update: Cancer Is Not a Ribbon
• A Call for Responsible Reporting
• A Poem by Krisanne A. Dattir
• Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
• Attention! [by Chemobabe]
• Poetry Contest Winners Announced
• Poetry Jam – Cast Your Vote!
• Surveying the BC Mets Community – [Survey Now Closed]
• Gayle Sulik on The Kojo Nnamdi Show (NPR’s WAMU)
• Mammogram Mania
• Pink Ribbon Blues Haiku #4
• Culture Jamming, Amazon-Style
• Hold Your Noses: Pink Has A Smell
• Pink Ribbon Blues Haiku #3
• Pink Ribbon Blues Free Verse #2
• Lucille Clifton’s Poetry
• A Poetic Comment
• “The Scent of Exploitation”
• Pink Ribbon Blues Free Verse #1
• Pink Ribbon Blues Haiku #2
• Pink Ribbon Blues Haiku #1
• Enter the Komen Bandits — Racing With A Message for BC Mets
• “Are We Really Racing for a Cure?”
• Pink Ribbon Blues Poetry Jam
• Sulik Article Published in Sociology Compass
• Dian Corneliussen-James: A Woman On A Mission
• Carol Murphy – “Lucky to Be Alive”
• “Breast Cancer and the Blame Game”
• “The Politics of Breast Cancer” Webinar: Sign Up Today!
• On-Line Memorial at Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer
• “Blood Lines”: An Exhibit by Elizabeth M. Claffey
• Reach MD Interviews Gayle Sulik about “Pink Ribbon Blues”
• Heading to Washington! NBCC’s Advocacy Training Conference
• Cause-Marketing Awareness Survey in the U.K.
• My Letter of Support for Breast Cancer Action
• Boobies, for Fun & Profit!
• “Whose Life Is It Anyway?”
• “Navigating Your Health Narrative!” – A Free Webinar from WEGO Health
• Money, Marketing, and Ethics: Can They Work Together?
• KomenWatchOut!
• Pink Ribbon Blues’ author to speak at UNT
• National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week (April 3-9)
• The Cancer Show Interview, Part 2
• “Boobies.” I said it. Now, May I Have Your Attention Please?
• From Sandra Steingraber
• “The Cancer Show” Interview
• ACTIVISM-[SL]ACTIVISM: An Essay by Erika Jahn
• What Good Is Awareness If…
• “Komen By The Numbers: 2010 And Still No Answers”
• BCA’s New Executive Director, Karuna Jaggar
• Tools for Action
• “It’s Time To Get Real”
• Dissertation Scholarship to Study Women and Cancer
• Rethinking, Reclaiming, and Remaining Compassionately Pink
• Komen By The Numbers: Education In Focus
• Research on Metastatic Breast Cancer: “Trying to Stay Alive on Two Percent”
• Komen’s Leadership In Question
• “Komen By The Numbers: The Context of Research”
• Pink Ribbon Culture as a Form of Psychological Denial
• “Komen By The Numbers”
• Nightly News Reveals Komen’s Overzealousousness
• “Hubris For The Cure”
• There Is More That Unites Us
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Sells Out the Pink to Get the Green
• Poor Pink Goliath
• A Serendipitous Review by Ellen Sue Spicer
• The Terrible Stories
• Breast Cancer, Plastics, and Prevention
• The Battle “For the Cure” – The Phrase, That Is
• Sarah Horton Live
• San Antonio Breast Cancer Research Symposium
• On “Positive Attitude”
• Saturday (11/27), I’ll be on “Gesundheit…with Jacobus”
• Gayle Sulik Interview on “Back Again with Keith & Jocelyn”
• “Celebrate Life” Breast Cancer Support Fleece Jacket
• Publishers Weekly Review of “Pink Ribbon Blues”
• NY Times Magazine’s, “Think About Pink”
• Gayle Sulik on “The Stupid Cancer Show”
• Sarah Horton Reviews “Pink Ribbon Blues”
• Pinktober, and a new era
• Saturday – On Plastics and Breast Cancer
• The Pink Leftovers
• Another Voice from the Breast Cancer Movement
• Foreword from Pink Ribbon Blues
• Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals
• Interview with Emily Main of Rodale.com
• “Seeing Red Over All That Pink”
• “Cure for Cancer Stalls…Companies in the Black”
• Pink Ribbon Blues – The New York Times Book Review
• Run If You Want To!
• Is Any Awareness Good Awareness?
• Breast Cancer Avatars on Second Life?
• Gayle Sulik On Oprah Radio’s “The Dr. Laura Berman Show”
• Awareness Umbrella
• Cat Nap for the Cause
• Unfashionable Diseases and Less Glamorous Cancers
• Starting a Conversation
• Economic Interests
• Birth of the Perpetual Fundraising Industry
• Featuring Sharon Blynn and JaneRA
• Remembrance
• “Fatigue Indeed” – NY Times Well Blog
• Why I Research Pink Ribbon Culture
• Swimming In A Sea of Pink
• Pink Kitsch, Brought To You By NBCAM
• Sarah Horton, Alive and Anti-Pink
• Runaway Ribbons and De Facto Cause Support
• Go Pink, or Go Home!
• Does Commercialization of the Pink Ribbon Add Value to the Cause?
• LA Times, On The Downside of Awareness Campaigns
• Bra Recycling Month
• Before You Buy Pink
• On the First Day of…
• On This BCAM Eve
• Look Out for Pinktober
• 2020: NBCC’s Breast Cancer Deadline
• “But Doctor…I Hate Pink!”
• When the Saints (And Celebs) Go Marching In…
• Library Journal Reviews “Pink Ribbon Blues”
• Texas Book Festival Announces 2010 Authors
• Rubber Duckie…
• What’s In A Color?
• What We Could Learn From George Burns About Breast Cancer Risk
• Thinking the Unthinkable
• “1 in 8” – Fear Mongering and the Probability of Developing Breast Cancer
• The “Darling” of Corporate Cause Marketing
• Feeling Good About Cause Marketing?
• From Disease-Specific Symbol to Brand Logo
• Inundation and Pink Ribbon Advertising