Cancer got him--but truly it was a battle

Those of us at Cancer Bitch Central do not like reading about someone's battle with cancer. But in the case of Roger Ebert , it's ap...

Katy to Princetonian: Pipe down!

A great response from sister ROW er to the letter to Princeton women. Patton should also read the Feminine Mystique . Because everyone want...

Making my mark at the Doo-Nanny Fest, Seale, AL

King Cotton

The astounding notion that the slavery system was a capitalistic system! I mean, did anyone ever doubt that? The slaveowners owned the means...

Tuscaloosa Diary--5

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia   Jim Crow? Jim Crowe? James Crow? Jim Doe? James Crowe? The school newspaper ran a column with thes...

Back to cancer for a moment

Beware, fellow cancer bitches, if your hair has grown back a different color or texture after chemo, you might have to bare your chest to pr...

Tuscaloosa Diary-4

Stop the presses! The New York Times has confirmed the death of civil rights pioneer James Hood, more than three days after it was reported...

Tuscaloosa Diary -3

Why is it, that as of 11:57am on Saturday, the New York Times still doesn't have a James Hood's news obit online or story on his dea...

Tuscaloosa Diary 2

Today I learned that A entity bought B entity to make it more white . But then I was in B and I said, I heard that you're owned by A, an...

Tuscaloosa Diary 1

I am trying to interrogate myself about this smugness, this Yankee intellectual artiste atheist lefty smugness. They pronounce "swim...

The 8 Nights of Chanukah and Beyond

Cancer Bitch has agreed to write eight prose poems about the eight nights of Chanukah. They are appearing a few days after the events depict...

ForChicago-area Lymphodema Bitches

Highlights from "Research Round Up" the 2012 Lymphedma Conference Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM Loca...

Hear the Bitch!

The audio book of Cancer Bitch just came out and Salon is very excited about it. Virtuosic, poignant.

No, not me

In answer to your question, I don't have mets. I was making the announcement (below) for a friend. Five years and 2 months after the en...

Got Mets?

For the uninitiated, mets refers to metastatic cancer. The existence of survivors with metastatic breast cancer is the unacknowledged shadow...

Four Kinds of Breast Cancer

The New York Times reports on a study of genomes in breast cancer in the journal Nature. The most interesting piece of it is that triple-ne...

Breast Cancer Town Hall Meeting, Chicago 9/30/12

Hear ye, hear ye, all you breast cancer bitches out there: Do you have questions about treatment options, nutrition and physical activity, f...

Are you there, Doc? It's me, Judy

It is with sadness that we welcome Judy Blume to the breast-cancer sisterhood. It sounds like she's making the best of it and she has a...

Uh oh! Cancer Bitch jumps on the pink bandwagon?

Cancer Bitch (far right) finds herself atop a pink firetruck used by an organization that raises money for various females with cancer and ...

Great News! People don't die of breast cancer any more!

That's what Congressional hopeful Chris Collins says. In his world, people don't die of cancer --because health care is so great and...