Nearly six months ago (yikes!) I was asked to write a review for the new (at the time) book, So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner (edited by Barbara Sjoholm, introduction by Rachel Morello-Frosch, afterword by Anne Lamott, University of Minnesota Press), and I said yes because I am a …
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Edit Note: Updated on May 8, 2019. Read my updates at the end of this post. May has evolved into Breast Cancer Awareness Month part 2. Or maybe it’s part 1 since May comes before October. Regardless, May ushers in the season of races. I first wrote about my discomfort with too much racing, not …
I have a bunch of goals for my memoir. One of my primary goals is to further expose metastatic breast cancer for what it is – horrible, deadly, under-discussed and massively underfunded. I share candidly about my family’s experience with metastatic breast cancer in my memoir, Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make …
It’s time to stop trivializing breast cancer with lame attempts to lighten things up. There is so much nonsense that goes on every October in the name of breast cancer awareness; it’s really quite remarkable. There could be an entire book written on October breast cancer awareness bullshit. And sadly, the bullshit is leeching out …
I told myself I was done with the Susan G. Komen® foundation. I didn’t really want to write about this organization any more. I’ve said my piece time and time again it seems. A few of my Komen piece links are included at the end of this one in case you want to read them. I don’t …