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4. Factoids, Impressions, and Impressions
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....
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9. Pink Ribbons, Inc.
The day I saw an advertisement in Harper’s Magazine for Samantha King’s book, “Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy,” I gasped. Not because of the title. I had been...
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11. “After the Cure”
One of my readers emailed me to ask why so little discussion of cancer is focused on morbidity? In epidemiological terms morbidity is typically calculated, either in terms of incidence (i.e., how many...
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14. The Cancer Show: A Cast of Thousands
This summer I wrote an essay on the Pink Ribbon Blues Blog called, “Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud.” It was one of the few times I revealed how much cancer influences my life both as a researcher and...
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16. Loss and Remembering: A Story of Heather Beyer
After Pink Ribbon Blues came out, Bill Noren periodically sent me photos, news items, and other tidbits about pink ribbon culture that concerned him. Several of the images and photos that are sprinkled...
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30. “Pink Ribbon Blues”– A Poem
I was inspired by the Pink Ribbon Blues Poetry Jam this summer. If you haven’t read the winning poems, check them out. They were chosen by popular vote and over 250 people participated in the voting....
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You Know What’s NOT Sexy?
Don’t say “breast cancer.” Because breast cancer is SUPER SEXY. If you’re not convinced, check out the Pink Ribbon Blues photo gallery. It includes common breast cancer “awareness” images like these....
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“Keep the Race Moving Toward the Cure”
Pink Ribbon Blues Contributor Lisa Valentine has written two essays for the PRB Blog: “What Lies Beneath,” which examines cultural expectations about women’s breasts, and “I Didn’t Know Then What I...
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“The Battle They Don’t Want to See”
No one has captured a glimpse into the largely invisible world of metastatic breast cancer more compellingly than photographer Angelo Merendino. Angelo began documenting his wife Jen’s illness...
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The trouble with Komen: Misusing statistics/Generating false hope
This article was edited since its original publication. It is now widely known that the benefits of wholesale mammography screening were overpromised. Rates of overdiagnosis (i.e., when a diagnosed...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Consortium Quarterly, Second Issue
I’ve been spending much of my time working with the Breast Cancer Consortium to develop plans, projects, and analyses. One of my roles is to edit the Quarterly newsletter, which has just been released....
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