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by Sarah Sutro and Judith Cohen Sarah Sutro is an artist and writer whose work has been shown and collected in the U.S. and internationally. Judith Cohen is a writer with numerous publications and a college professor who teaches in an adult education program. They are close friends; both had been diagnosed with breast . . . → Read More: Resisting Breast Cancer Culture
by Theresa Palomares Theresa Palomares from Houston, Texas is a woman living with metastatic breast cancer. She is one of the initiators of the Inspired Metastatic Breast Cancer Advocacy Quilt and METS Collage project, whose aim is to raise awareness of the lack of research funding for stage IV breast cancer. In August 2011, . . . → Read More: Stage IV Awareness: There is a Way
by Ashley Savage Ashley Savage is a photographer whose work has been published and exhibited both in the UK and abroad. He collaborated with Tutu Tedder on the documentary photographic project they entitled, ‘Cancer Sucks.’ In line with Tutu’s last wishes, he is looking for funding, publications and galleries willing to show this work. Since . . . → Read More: Cancer Sucks: The Legacy of Tutu Tedder
by Stephanie Theobald Stephanie Theobald is a British journalist for publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The London Evening Standard. She has also published four novels. Her third, Trix, about a road trip across America, was inspired by her close friend Tutu Tedder. Tutu Tedder, a performer who died of breast cancer in . . . → Read More: Tutu Tedder: Punk Cancer Not Pink Cancer
by Natasia Hamarat Natasia Hamarat is a Belgian PhD candidate in sociology of health at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She tells the story of Isabella, a young woman diagnosed with breast cancer whom she interviewed during her earlier graduate work. Isabella’s story shows how hard it can be to live with the side effects . . . → Read More: Isabella: The Side Effects of Survivorship
by Ana Porroche Escudero Ana Porroche Escudero PhD is an anthropologist and member of the Breast Cancer Consortium living in the U.K. She tells the story of Che, a Spanish hairdresser whose working life has been turned upside down by breast cancer. Che represents one of the many hidden socioeconomic and other contextual aspects of . . . → Read More: Che: Managing Cancer and Self-Employment
by Nina Redl Nina Redl is a health care chaplain who has worked for many years with oncology patients. She tells the story of Natasha, a young woman with Inflammatory Breast Cancer she met when she was working in the Middle East. I met Natasha towards the end of her life. A Russian Jewish immigrant . . . → Read More: Natasha: Maybe in Another Life
By Gayle Sulik Gayle Sulik PhD is a medical sociologist, founder and president of the Breast Cancer Consortium, and author of Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health. She tells the story of Overpass Girl, O.G., as poet Steve Davenport calls her. Somewhere Overpass Girl bruises, blows, burns. . . . → Read More: Overpass Girl: The Power of Anonymity 
“When The TODAY Show Told This Metastatic Breast Cancer Warrior She Wasn’t Bald Enough.” By Jennifer Campisano, Women You Should Know. How could the media continue to trivialize and “pink-ify” our disease, while pushing those of us who will die from it to the sidelines? It started with an article about Joan Lunden, . . . → Read More: When The TODAY Show Told This Metastatic Breast Cancer Warrior She Wasn’t Bald Enough
By Grazia de Michele and Cinzia Greco In her powerful essay “Illness As Metaphor” Susan Sontag drew a comparison between what she considered to be two of the most metaphorized diseases in recent history: tuberculosis and cancer. The former, represented as an illness affecting sensitive and weak people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in . . . → Read More: Demystifying Breast Cancer: Introduction |
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