“You may never think pink again about breast cancer after reading Sulik’s sobering and lucid critique of what she calls “pink culture”–which has turned a “complex social and medical” issue into “a popular item for public consumption” and has actually “impeded progress in the war on breast cancer.” Sulik, a medical sociologist, argues that the truth about breast cancer, so . . . → Read More: Publishers Weekly Review of “Pink Ribbon Blues”
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Peggy Orenstein, author of forthcoming book Cindarella Ate My Daughter, wrote a compelling article for The New York Times Magazine (Nov. 12, 2010) addressing contemporary efforts to make breast cancer “sexy” for an upbeat and stylized cancer marketplace. In Think About Pink, Orenstein critiques the “I ❤ Boobies” and “Save the Ta-tas” campaigns that detract from the truth about breast . . . → Read More: NY Times Magazine’s, “Think About Pink” Tune in on Monday, November 15 at 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time for an interesting episode of The Stupid Cancer Show – focusing on cause marketing. “The Stupid Cancer Show is an award-winning international talk radio webcast giving voice to this lost generation of 5 million strong by tackling hard hitting issues from politics, health care and the environment to . . . → Read More: Gayle Sulik on “The Stupid Cancer Show” I am honored that Sarah Horton, author of Being Sarah, has written such a thorough and thoughtful review of Pink Ribbon Blues. Read Sarah Horton’s review here. The fact that Sarah carried the book with her five miles to the shore of the river Dee estuary where she could reflect on its contents as she gazed out at the water . . . → Read More: Sarah Horton Reviews “Pink Ribbon Blues” Repost from Breast Cancer Fund: On Saturday, November 6, Breast Cancer Fund President and CEO Jeanne Rizzo will speak at a very special TEDx event on plastic pollution. Jeanne, who will talk about plastic and its connections to breast cancer, will be among other prominent thought leaders, innovators and artists who will share what they know, explore solutions and present . . . → Read More: Saturday – On Plastics and Breast Cancer Now that Pinktober is officially over and we’ve had a few days to recover we might ask ourselves, “Where have all the pink leftovers gone?” Jan already commented in October that she feared what would would happen to the pink gear from the NFL. “Many of the NFL players are wearing pink gloves, pink wrist wraps, pink shoes, . . . → Read More: The Pink Leftovers What follows is an excerpt from the foreword to Pink Ribbon Blues, written by Bonnie B. Spanier, Ph.D., Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Emerita, Women’s Studies Department, University at Albany. — The grassroots breast cancer movement of twenty-plus years has been a force for progress for consumers interfacing with medicine. Over the years, much has changed in breast cancer biomedicine as . . . → Read More: Foreword from Pink Ribbon Blues Excerpt from Pink Ribbon Blues “I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.” — Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde, African American poet, essayist, autobiographer, novelist, and nonfiction writer, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1978. Six months after her modified radical mastectomy, she began . . . → Read More: Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals |
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