Monthly Archives: May 2021

Cancer Culture

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Ira Feinstein, author and quality human person, joins us to talk about living with a BRCA gene mutation and how existing outside of established cancer culture norms can leave you feeling cut off. It’s a good one, folks.

Links!

Ira Feinstein’s website (read the essays, watch the video, it’s all gold): https://irafeinstein.com/about/

Get vaccinated: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

Get both doses (if applicable): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/covid-vaccines-second-doses.html

The Illusory Truth Effect: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/xge-0000098.pdf

Vaccine misinformation pays big bucks: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/12/993615185/for-some-anti-vaccine-advocates-misinformation-is-part-of-a-business

The Disinformation Dozen: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes

B Sides: Cold Capping Is Expensive So Let’s Get Insurance to Cover It

BCI B Sides

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Becca Jean talks about testifying before a congressional committee in an effort to pass HB 1588 which would require insurance companies to cover the cost of cold capping in the state of Texas, making it an affordable option for women wanting to preserve their hair, their dignity and anonymity, through chemo.

Track the bill’s progress here: https://capitol.texas.gov/billlookup/BillStages.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB1588.

You can help by contacting the Insurance Committee (512) 463-0788 and telling them you support HB 1588.

Good Hair

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Special guest Becca Jean is here to talk cold capping, taking no medical bullshit and being an advocate for yourself and others. Follow Becca Jean on Instagram @beccajean__ (that’s two underscores).

More about Becca Jean’s cold capping experience: https://theoutline.com/post/6346/saving-cancer-patients-hair-could-be-so-easy?zi=33yfwkil&zd=5

Book: Pretty Sick by Caitlin Kiernan

Article on “job lock” and financial toxicity in cancer survivors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7686183/

Keeping your job after a cancer diagnosis can be difficult (shocker): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6992498/

Women of color talk about hair in the workplace: https://www.byrdie.com/natural-hair-in-corporate-america

Attractive people have the advantage at work:

https://hbr.org/2019/10/attractive-people-get-unfair-advantages-at-work-ai-can-help; https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2012/08/30/why-it-pays-to-be-attractive; https://www.businessinsider.com/how-being-attractive-affects-your-career-2016-7; https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomaspremuzic/2019/07/17/its-time-to-expose-the-attractiveness-bias-at-work/?sh=36d84bfb1324