PINK is no longer the color of BREAST CANCER AWARENESS: WEAR GREY
I was so inspired last night at Julie Klausner’s show (How Was Your Week? Live!) when she and Sandra Bernhard were talking about feminism. I have felt for a long time that PINKNESS as a symbol for breast cancer awareness has gone too far, and succeeds at nothing but furthering a brand, the infantilization of the nation, and making cancer adorable.
Sandra was talking about how women should be ENRAGED that we continue to die from breast cancer, and that politics are coming between women and our rights and our bodies, and the color of rage is NOT PINK.
We’re no closer to a cure than we are to building condos on mars.
As Sandra asked “fuck the cure, WHAT’S THE CAUSE!?”
And surely one of the causes of women losing their breasts, their lives, their mothers, their daughters, their friends, their partners to breast cancer is our lack of accessible and affordable health care and early detection screening for women.
We don’t need Komen. We need a new wave of feminism to fight the battle being waged against our bodies and our rights by politicians, misinformation, corporate greed, and archaic ideals hiding behind the institutes of organized religion that sets women back to 1950’s standards.
We don’t need pink teddy bears, boobie awareness t-shirts, pink football uniforms or fun-runs.
Cancer isn’t girlie.
It’s morbid death.
It is a lack of life.
That’s why I’m going grey.
