Breaking: Komen Foundation pulls breast cancer screening funds from Planned...
What sad and disturbing news. From the Washington Post comes breaking news that will affect hundreds of thousands of dollars in women’s health funding: “The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity,...
View ArticleWomen’s health care shouldn’t be at the mercy of Komen or Bloomberg
As Samhita mentioned yesterday, in response to the Komen fiasco, Mayor Bloomberg is matching donations to Planned Parenthood up to $250,000. While he’s probably contributing the biggest chunk of...
View ArticleBreaking: Komen apologizes, says they will continue funding Planned Parenthood
The Komen Board of Directors and Founding CEO Nancy G. Brinker just released a statement in response to the massive outcry following their decision to stop directing funds to Planned Parenthood, most...
View ArticleThe gene patent case before the Supreme Court is hugely important to women’s...
Ed. note: Katie is off this week, so Arikia Millikan is guest blogging in her place. Arikia is a Brooklyn-based journalist and former Wired editor who writes about science and technology. She was Nate...
View ArticleAre mainstream breast cancer awareness initiatives hurting more than they’re...
Ed. note: This is a guest post from Verónica Bayetti Flores. Verónica is the Assistant Director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program (CLPP) at Hampshire College. She has worked to increase...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Angelina Jolie writes about her double mastectomy, preventing...
Angelina Jolie published a op-ed in this morning’s New York Times detailing her double mastectomy. Because of her family history of breast and ovarian cancer, Jolie chose to investigate her own risk...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court rules human genes cannot be patented
The New York Times reports: Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The case concerned patents held by Myriad Genetics, a Utah company, on genes that...
View ArticleQuick hit: How sequestration screws over breast cancer researchers
At TPM Cafe today, there’s a great piece about how sequestration cuts are making it harder for scientists to do research on lifesaving medical treatments: The sequester was supposed to be so draconian...
View ArticleWeekly Feminist Reader
Ann’s gender-reversed parody: A response to Emily Yoffe. Breast cancer stigmas in Uganda. “When does an Academic become a Whore?” Spike Jonze and Her: Who are we writing out of the future? Apparently,...
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“Oklahomans brag that theirs has become the reddest state.” Living with breast cancer at 26. The difference between Malala and Nabila. The 5 billion dollar food stamp cut is reverberating across the...
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Do you know about Anita Hill? Cameroon has been quietly locking up LGBT people for years with little international attention. The last rural abortion clinics in Texas just shut down. “It’s a myth as...
View ArticleWhy Bruce Willis & Demi Moore’s daughter wants us to see her nipples
(Image via Twitter) The media is quick to mock and dismiss Scout Willis’s topless protest against Instagram and her campaign to “Free The Nipple.” But if more celebrities used their social media, high...
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More on Maya Angelou’s funeral. Good news: the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against an Arizona law that restricted the use of abortion-inducing medications. Kiera Wilmot, the...
View ArticleFracking company honors the victims of the breast cancer they help cause with...
No… this isn’t The Onion. It’s an unbelievable case of pinkwashing, greenwashing and whitewashing. As we mentioned yesterday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation–which you’ll recall tried to pull funding...
View ArticleCritiquing ‘Pinktober’ Is Not Enough
The blood draining from the bandages where my mom’s breasts used to be was vermilion, not pale pink. Neither were the pill bottles, paper measuring cups, or plastic buckets I arranged in rows around...
View ArticleWhy Bro-Humor Breast Cancer Campaign Slogans are Bullshit
Another October has arrived, and with it has come the endless breast cancer fundraising campaigns. “Save the Ta-tas!” “Save Second Base.” “Save the Boobies!” “I’m Here for the Boobs.” Last week I even...
View ArticleRethinking Pink
Written on October 19th, 2014 Two years ago today, I awoke on a Friday morning to a phone call. I snapped out of my morning haze into a state of lucid shock. “Mom’s cancer came back, and it has spread....
View ArticleAre mainstream breast cancer awareness initiatives hurting more than they’re...
Ed. note: This is a guest post from Verónica Bayetti Flores. Verónica is the Assistant Director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program (CLPP) at Hampshire College. She has worked to increase...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Angelina Jolie writes about her double mastectomy, preventing...
Angelina Jolie published a op-ed in this morning’s New York Times detailing her double mastectomy. Because of her family history of breast and ovarian cancer, Jolie chose to investigate her own risk...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court rules human genes cannot be patented
The New York Times reports: Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The case concerned patents held by Myriad Genetics, a Utah company, on genes that...
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