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Book Review: Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person
Computer trainer Miriam Engelberg had always been a voracious reader of comics, from the popular satire of Mad Magazine to the more literary and autobiographical comics written by Harvey Pekar, Lynda...
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How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously
“How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously,” The Atlantic, Oct. 15, 2015. When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency...
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With Love, From MIL
By Felicia Moro Felicia Moro of New Jersey writes about her daughter-in-law Rachel Cheetham Moro, a Breast Cancer Consortium founder who died from metastatic breast cancer four years ago. I first met...
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Eva Endures
By Christine Byl Author Christine Byl writes in memory of her friend Eva Saulitus, an author and field biologist who died of metastatic breast cancer on January 16th, 2016 at age fifty-two. We shared...
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Queering Breast Cancer: ARRETA, The Documentary You Can Help To Finish
Filmmakers Raquel Marques and María Zafra are proud to announce a crowdfunding campaign for Arreta, a long overdue film on queer experiences of breast cancer. “Arreta” (meaning ‘attention’ in Basque)...
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Radical Objects: ‘Cancer Sucks’
Radical Objects: ‘Cancer Sucks’ by Grazia de Michele, History Workshop Online, July 11, 2016. Photo Credit: Ken Fisher In September 1995, Lucy Sherak was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43....
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Sheryl Crow Hawks 3D Mammograms with Fear and False Hope
“Sheryl Crow hawks 3D mammograms with fear and false hope”, Health News Review. It may not be her favorite mistake, but it was a mistake nonetheless for the singer and breast cancer survivor Sheryl...
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Book Review: Reading & Writing Cancer
“For those who survive and those who do not.” That is the dedication Susan Gubar gives to her new book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal. The straight-forward acknowledgement that some...
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A banner week for CDA (Celebrity Disease Awareness)
“A banner week for CDA (Celebrity Disease Awareness),” Alan Cassels, Health News Review. Celebrity disease awareness (or pushing of disease-mongered conditions) is not going away soon. But maybe it...
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I’m Not The Perfect Cancer Survivor. But I’ve Learned To Live With That
by Adam Bessie, Marc Parenteau, and Gayle Sulik, Narratively, February 16, 2017. Adam Bessie is a San Francisco Bay Area based writer, whose comics on living with cancer have been featured in The...
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