BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
When I see ads for Breast Cancer Awareness Month I see this: I NEED to see more things like this: Ericka Hart photographed by Shaun Mader Photography I need to see inclusiveness in ads, commercials, pamphlets and pictures. Cancer does not discriminate. These images are intense. They are REAL . Breast cancer IS NOT cupcakes, ribbons and rainbows. Breast cancer is a lot of waiting, doctor appointments, copayments, white walls and needles. Diagnosis carries fear, loss, anxiety, anger, disappointment, instability and MUCH MUCH MORE. Cancer is painful, emotionally exhausting, and a quiet often invisible disease. “Cancer is finally out of the closet, when I was kid people didn’t say the word Cancer, they referred to it as the big C. It was something you whispered about, or didn’t talk about at all” -Cheryl Wilm
