I have some updates to share about both mammograms and monarch butterflies, but first, a happy announcement. The judges for the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund have awarded me a grant to afford me time to work on my book-in-progress, One Canary Sings. The fund bequeaths small grants to feminists in the arts, and I am honored and energized…
Tag Archive for American Cancer Society
5 Questions from Orion’s Scott Gast
“I started out researching an article about mammograms, and in the process I uncovered all of this other mind-blowing information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the pink ribbon campaign. I even created a file called ‘Hypocrisy, Doublespeak, and Conflicts of Interest.’ Later, that file got subdivided into three separate files: ‘Monsanto,’ ‘American Cancer Society,’ and ‘Pinkwashing.’ Read more…
Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America
I had not yet turned 40 when I read the startling statistic that for every 2000 women who submit to ten years of annual mammograms, one will have her life prolonged and ten will be over-diagnosed and treated unnecessarily. But two years later, when my nurse practitioner urged me in for a baseline, I acquiesced. A call-back led to an…