Breast Cancer Awareness Month always seemed like a positive idea to me: a no-brainer. Buying things with pink ribbons was an easy way to show my solidarity with cancer patients fighting the disease and to remember those who lost their battles, right?
That changed dramatically in 2014 when, at the age of 38, I was diagnosed with breast cancer myself. As a survivor, I have conflicted emotions about Pink-tober and its ubiquitous looped ribbons and "awareness" campaigns.
