In an essay on this condition, a message board poster named "Gerri" is one of the few people the narrator meets who shares her anger.
In an essay on this condition, a message board poster named "Gerri" is one of the few people the narrator meets who shares her anger. In that work, a result of this condition's "relentless brightsiding" is its transformation "into a rite of passage." A man who studied this condition re-named the young Einer Gustafson "Jimmy" as part of a PR campaign and received support from Mary Lasker. A book about it criticizes literary works like Auden's poem "Miss Gee" for promoting the idea that this condition comes from emotional or sexual repression. According to one work, the attitudes that used to surround another disease in the 19th century were transferred to insanity and this disease. Barbara Ehrenreich criticized the over- sentimentalization of it in a 2001 Harper's article, "Welcome to [this]-land." That essay also calls the support groups surrounding it "a cult of pink kitsch." For 10 points, name this disease which Susan Sontag discusses alongside TB in Illness as Metaphor, and whose history is documented in Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies.
In an essay on this condition, a message board poster named "Gerri" is one of the few people the narrator meets who shares her anger.
cancer [or breast cancer; don't accept other varieties]