Weekly Round-Up
Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s blog roundup! We’ve got a great mix of posts this week, touching on everything from art and advocacy to love and loss.
First up, Beth shares how she declined a media opportunity for her nude painting series, “Breast Cancer, Female and Young,” because the proposed coverage wanted to portray the series as a journey from sadness to joy. She felt this misrepresented the complex and often ongoing reality of living with breast cancer, which isn’t always positive or easily resolved so she chose to protect the authenticity of her work, which aims to depict the diverse experiences of those affected by the disease, rather than promote a simplified and potentially misleading narrative.
Martha writes this week about finding community after her metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, but recent discord in cancer support groups makes her fear she’s losing these vital connections.
In her latest post, Carolyn explains why she deleted her blog “The Ethical Nag.” It focused on marketing ethics, particularly in medicine, and she wrote about doctors selling unregulated supplements. After writing about one such doctor (using his own website’s information), she received a legal threat from his lawyers and, fearing their power, deleted the post. Finally, she shut down the blog entirely because her work was being used by anti-science groups, which she strongly opposes. She emphasizes the importance of credible scientific information.
Barbara addresses common breast cancer treatment side effects and management strategies in her latest post.
Susan Marshall, writing on the SBC blog offers 11 honest tips for navigating cancer treatment, emphasizing feeling all emotions, accepting help (or asking for it), and coping with physical changes and “scanxiety.”
Finally this week for a bit of heartwarming Valentine’s Day inspiration, Connie shares beautiful reflections on her parents’ love story.
So much to explore this week! Click the links above to read the full posts and connect with these amazing writers.
Until next week,
Much love
Marie xxx
Thank you dear Marie for including my post on this week’s excellent Round-Up. Revisiting that moment on the day I opened up that courier envelope and read the law firm’s threat to sue me was so surreal – especially since, as you mention here, what I’d written about that doctor was quoted word-for-word from his own retail product website. These docs believe, like many wealthy celebrities, that any feedback that’s not favourable deserves swift retaliation.
kind regards,
C.
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