Breast Cancer Is Boring

Public Service Announcement: If a man would rather love you when you’re weak than when you’re strong, that’s not romantic; that’s garbage. Take out the trash.

Happy New Year! Please join us as we look back, forward, sideways a little, but mostly inside our own damn selves.

Special guest Rhonda is here to walk us through her cancer timeline, from getting (professionally) felt up during a flight to all the ways she avoided being murdered. Good times.

The social medias may be one of the worst places to do research, but can a well curated feed make us better human people?

Jonathan walks us through how to read a research article when you only have five minutes, which will be the ultimate party trick for 2021.

Advanced Practice Nurse, PhD student and quality human person Jonathan Hecht is here to help us commoners understand the who, what, where and hows of this thing we call “research.”

Come for the science, stay for the talk of death and preexisting conditions; it’s a real light-hearted romp. Enjoy!

Breast cancer is an expensive club and the membership dues are too. Damn. High.

October got you seeing pink? Us too. Let’s talk the empowering, monetizing, infantilizing and ultimately problematic nature of Pink.

Break out the clinical strength deodorant because spontaneously bursting into invisible flames is just your life now. Farewell, estrogen!

Join special guest and occasional caller of emergency board meetings Yolanda (Yoli) Origel as we talk Cancer Kinship , emotional cardboard painting and skydiving/jujitsu enthusiasm. Enjoy!

Naps and cake. That is all. Seriously though, if you even think you’re depressed, talk to someone. If you have no one (their loss, obviously), then: Text NAMI to 741-741(trained crisis counselor available 24/7), or Call 1-800-950-NAMI (NAMI HelpLine Monday through Friday, 10 am–6 pm, ET), or Email info@nami.org

Honorary Cohost Shauna Vogt is here to talk about the glory, pain, delight and disappointment that is DIEP Flap reconstructive surgery after mastectomy. Your hair grows back, but your nipples do not; discuss.

Getting chemo has never been great, but getting chemo now is a whole new level of dumpster fire. Special guest Jaide talks what it’s like to go through something that has literally never happened before: getting chemo during a global pandemic.

I read a book, so now we’re going to talk about our vaginas (which, most of the time, is actually our vulvas). Say what!?

It’s TMI Time, people! Post-op weeks 3-8 and I’m talking posture, pubic hair and GOT. Prepare for a journey to the center of an existential crisis; let’s do this!

Special guest Sharon Henifin, author, radio host, organization builder, 26+ year cancer survivor and all around cool person, is here to talk us through and remind us that it will get better.

We’re talking Cancer in the time of Covid with special guest star Lauren F.! Pour yourself a homemade cocktail, slap on a pair of headphones while you hand wash your cloth face masks and enjoy the questionable sound quality of this latest episode.

Behold, snippets from Lauren and Joselyn’s nearly two hour Skype call because this is the world now. Enjoy.

Joselyn chronicles her first two weeks of recovery from DIEP Flap Reconstructive surgery, captured in real-time.

Mastectomy, lumpectomy, nipplectomy…from choosing what to take to choosing who to take it, we’re talking surgeons, hospitals and recovery.

We’re talking chemo with resident expert and very special guest Lily Jockers! What is chemo, why is chemo and how come we can’t just talk our way out of getting it.

Special guest Alana and Joselyn go off on a tangent about preoccupation with death, the everlasting nature of a breast cancer diagnosis and the shattered dreams of writing the next great American novel.

The Chernobyl stage of breast cancer: Radiation. Wet the towels, break out the Lanolin and buy those t-shirts in bulk; it’s gonna be a ride but it all ends in confetti.

Chemo may take our hair, but it will never take our vanity. Hold on to your brows as we explore being bald and nippleless amid cultural expectations of femininity.