Tickets for Drawing the Connections 2022 are now available! Be sure to reserve your (virtual) seat and join us in this celebration of health justice and artistic creativity.
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Think Before You Pink
Our work to end this breast cancer challenges "pinkwashing" hypocrisy and pink ribbon culture, which have become the status quo of the breast cancer industry.
WHO WE ARE
EDUCATE. ORGANIZE. TAKE ACTION.
We are radical and compassionate — activists at heart with an independent, rapid-response, watchdog perspective.
BCAction was founded 30+ years ago in San Francisco during two public health crises-the AIDS outbreak and the breast cancer epidemic-and that helped shape its mission and fuel its activism. Early members apprenticed themselves to the AIDS group, ACT UP, and shared many of that group’s tactics, turning their anger into action to push for better treatments, true prevention, and investment in public health.
Our founders saw their disease not as a personal tragedy, but as a larger social justice and public health crisis. They knew that individual changes in behavior weren’t the answer, and pushed for sweeping systemic change instead.
Posted on May 24, 2022
By Zoë Christopher, Program Officer & Operations Manager
Art has always informed my work and my values.
I look forward to sharing the curated collection of social justice and health justice-themed artwork with you at Breast [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2022
By Jayla Burton, Program Manager
Stories play a powerful role in our culture and in social change because they connect our communities, inform and expand our perspective, and illuminate areas in need of change.
Our newest podcast [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2022
By Jayla Burton, Program Manager
Companies continue to legally sell personal care products with chemicals that can cause cancer and other serious health harms.
Enough is enough. Cosmetic safety reform is long overdue.
Now is your [...]
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SEE OUR RESOURCES
We provide free educational materials with unbiasedm accessible, science-based analysis of breast cancer issues untangled from free of industry influnce.
We believe that all people deserve access to patient-centered resources to make the best decisions about their care.
Breast Cancer Actions's Think Before You Pink campaign continues to hold the Breast Cancer Industry Accountable
The absence of transparency, lack of accountability, and the widespread hypocrisy in the pink ribbon marketing culture exploits a disease that devastates communities, misrepresents who is affected by breast cancer, and excludes and marginalizes women’s diverse lived experiences of the disease
EVENTS
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Tuesday June
Drawing the Connections
With this event and the accompanying art auction, which runs June 9 – 19, we’ll highlight the intersection of art, activism, breast cancer, and social justice – and uplift art-ivism as a driver of social change. Learn More & Get Tickets
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
"Your work calling out environmental causes of cancer saved my wife's sanity when all doctors (and anyone else) were telling her was - eat right, exercise more, blah, blah. She did all that and got cancer. You did wonders for her mental health. Thanks!"
- Sandy, Roslindale, MA -
BCAction Member since 2005
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
"I believe in your work to eradicate breast cancer through systemic change strategies."
- Lisa, Oakland, CA -
BCAction Member since 2002
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
""As a somewhat recent cancer survivor, I was looking to get involved with an organization focused on health justice with a strategy rooted in racial and gender equity. Breast Cancer Action is the organization doing work most aligned with my values, and I'm so grateful to be able to contribute."
- Stacey, Brooklyn, NY -
BCAction Member since 2021
IMPACT
We honor diverse voices and lived experiences
"I am a longtime supporter because I love Breast Cancer Action's radical and evidence-based values."
