This October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and the Irish Cancer Society is encouraging people to host a Big Pink Breakfast in their homes, workplaces, communities and colleges to raise funds to support breast cancer support services such as free counselling, transport to chemotherapy, night nursing and more.
Chris Coughlan first found a lump in her breast in 2002. It turned out to be benign.. But two years later, aged 42, she felt another lump on her left breast one day, while holding her newborn granddaughter.
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, when health officials aim to raise awareness of the condition which affects one in six men at some point during their lifetime.
Although visibility is important, contemporary queer African literature reveals how easily representation privileges narratives of the resourceful and upwardly mobile.