The “Special Breast Cancer Awareness Issue” floods the populace in October. It might be in a small town in upstate New York, a metropolitan city in Florida, or a magazine dedicated to the Jersey Shore. It doesn’t really matter. The template is the same. Shape the culture, fuel the industry, and do it in the name of “awareness.” Rachel C. . . . → Read More: 4. Factoids, Impressions, and Impressions
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Jody Schoger is a writer and cancer advocate with more than 25 years of experience in public relations and communications in health care, science, education and the arts. Following her own diagnosis with a locally advanced breast cancer in l998, she has since devoted her energy to helping other survivors. She is the author of the “Anchored Activism” column in . . . → Read More: 2. “Left Behind” Brief Biography: Krisanne A Dattir, an aerialist on hiatus, is an award winning poet who has been published in various print and on-line venues. She is presently working on her MFA thesis, a memoir hybrid, which includes how her diagnosis with breast cancer last year interrupted her training and an aerial silks performance. She is also . . . → Read More: A Poem by Krisanne A. Dattir Lani Horn, a.k.a. Chemobabe Pink Ribbon Blues is honored to share a recent post from blogger, Lani Horn, who writes under the name Chemobabe. She is a social scientist in her “regular life” and created ChemoBabe as a persona who has “enough spunk and edge to get smacked down” by treatment and “stand back up ready to fight some . . . → Read More: Attention! [by Chemobabe] Today’s Pink Ribbon Blues Contributor is Claire Festel, a writer from British Columbia. Her new book, Remarkable Yukon Women, shares the profiles of fifty women over the age of fifty who were born, or who settled in, the sparsely populated Yukon territory of western Canada. Illustrated with portraits of these women by artist Valerie Hodgson of Whitehorse, Yukon, the . . . → Read More: Carol Murphy – “Lucky to Be Alive” Beth Gainer is an author and breast cancer survivor who writes the blog-column, “Calling the Shots.” On April 17th, 2011 she posted an excerpt from her upcoming book with the same title, Calling the Shots: Coaching Your Way Through the Medical System. The book is a primer for how to advocate for oneself through a difficult medical landscape. It includes . . . → Read More: “Breast Cancer and the Blame Game” In October 2009 Suzan was diagnosed with stage 3B inflammatory breast cancer. Her doctors told her that the tumor that engorged her left breast and caused her nipple to invert was growing at a fast rate. Instead of the usual 5 percent growth rate in cancer cells, Suzan’s cells were growing at a rate of 40 percent. About a week . . . → Read More: “Blood Lines”: An Exhibit by Elizabeth M. Claffey |
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