Category Archives: Social Commentary

Past Tense

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Scorchy

The paperwork is in. Fifty pages compiled by four people and faxed to two insurance companies. Disability. I didn’t want to do it. Indeed, for two years I fought hard to crawl my way back to who I was. I can hardly … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings, Uncategorized | Tagged advocacy, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, career, Diagnosis, fear, friends, Information resources, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, pain management, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, support, vulnerability | 45 Comments

STFU

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Scorchy

So I’ve been attempting to write post after post after post, inevitably trashing them all. I tried one on depression, one on anxiety, one on pink. Whatever I tried it just never worked. And I have to say that through … Continue reading →

Posted in My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings | Tagged "cure rates", anxiety, Attitude, awareness, Beyond the Pink Moon, boredom, boring, breast, breast cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cancer Culture, cancer loop, Cancertown, career, Diagnosis, Exemestane, Facebook, fear, friends, frustration, knitting, Komen, Lyrica, MBC, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, OxyContin, Philosophy, pink ribbon, Pinktober, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, STFU, stigma, strong, support, TODAY, Treatment, vulnerability, whiney | 61 Comments

The Breastless Nude

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Scorchy

Recently I went on quite a tear when it was revealed that Kohl’s and Komen had co-opted METAvivor’s intellectual property for an ad campaign. It really rakes my last nerve when people do this; rather than call up an original idea–which … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Breastploitation, My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary | Tagged advocacy, breast cancer, breastless nudes, Cancer Culture, Charice Isis, David Jay, Grace, iconic mythology of breast cancer, Kohl's, Komen, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, objectification, photography, pink ribbon, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, stigma, The SCAR Project, vulnerability | 27 Comments

Jinxed

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Scorchy

I have another lytic lesion in my sacrum. When I saw the picture from my routine PET/CT it looked like the Eye of Mordor. The circle of the body was bright orange and there on the left, on the sacrum, … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary | Tagged 30%, @Judy_KomenCEO, @SusanGKomen, advocacy, Attitude, Biopsy, bone metastasis, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, Elephant in the Pink Room, Exemestane, Eye of Mordor, Information resources, jinx. jinxed, Komen, Letrozole, lytic lesion, Mammogram, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, metastatic disease, metastatic research, Metavivor, PET/CT, Philosophy, pink ribbon, Research, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, superstition, superstitious, support, Susan G. Komen, Susan G.Komen for the Cure, Varian | 30 Comments

Facepalm

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Scorchy

You all know my feelings about Susan G. Komen (see my commentary here, here, and here). And it has always been puzzling to me that a woman whose sister supposedly died of breast cancer that metastasized would establish an organization … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings | Tagged #talkpink, @SusanGKomen, advocacy, Attitude, avarice, awareness, BOYCOTT, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, greed, hubris, Information resources, Jonathan Blum, Kohl's, Komen, met, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, Metavivor, OCCUPY, pink ribbon, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, support, Susan G.Komen for the Cure | 9 Comments

OCCUPY #talkpink

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Scorchy

Please head over to Twitt

Posted in Advocacy, Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, My Stage IV Life, Social Commentary | Tagged advocacy, awareness, breast cancer, Information resources, Kohl's, Komen, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, Metavivor, pink ribbon, Politics, Research, stage iv breast cancer, support | 2 Comments

#TALKPINK

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Scorchy

Posted in Advocacy, Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings | Tagged #talkpink, @Judy_KomenCEO, @NancyGBrinker, @SusanGKomen, advocacy, Attitude, breast cancer, Cancer Culture, Information resources, Kohl's, Kohl's cares, Komen, metastatic breast cancer, Metavivor, pink Kohl's cash, pink ribbon, pinksploitation, Research, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, Susan G.Komen for the Cure | 4 Comments

Komen SHAME!

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Scorchy

There’s no getting around the horse’s ass: Kohl’s and Susan G. Komen made a reprehensible move. It’s the same old cause marketing shill that makes money for Kohl’s, employs another celebrity hack, and fills the coffers of Susan G. Komen … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Breastploitation, Social Commentary | Tagged #talkpink, advocacy, awareness, breast cancer, Information resources, It's the (pink) elephant in the room, Kohl's, Kohl's cares, Komen, Media, metastasis, metastatic breast cancer, Metavivor, Philosophy, pink Kohl's cash, Pinktober, Politics, Research, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, vulnerability | 5 Comments

One More Thing!

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Scorchy

Okay, just one more commentary on this ad campaign and I will move on. When I found out that I had breast cancer, the world-class surgeon to whom I was referred downplayed its seriousness. When I look back, it has … Continue reading →

Posted in Breast Cancer PSAs, Breastploitation, Social Commentary, Stage IV Musings | Tagged @OfficialPAC, advocacy, breast cancer, Diagnosis, embarrassingly bad ad campaigns, fear, Information resources, metastasis, pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic Cancer Action, pink ribbon, Politics, Research, seriously fucked up shit, Stage IV, stage iv breast cancer, vulnerability | 40 Comments

You Want It? You Got It.

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Scorchy

Dear Ladies Who Want My Breast Cancer, I know that my blog posts and Twitter activity have been minimal since august of 2013. It was a miserable year filled with tests, pain, and uncertainty. I think I have been distant … Continue reading →