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blm

(114,763 posts) Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:52 PM Aug 2018

25yrs ago today the biggest jumpstart of breast-cancer awareness movement occurred.

Can you name it?

http://beautyoutofdamage.com

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25yrs ago today the biggest jumpstart of breast-cancer awareness movement occurred. (Original Post) blm Aug 2018 OP

Gerald Ford's wife Betty's diagnosis, courageously going public Hekate Aug 2018 #1

Even more striking and impactful than that. blm Aug 2018 #2

NFL players took a knee for breast cancer awareness? Brother Buzz Aug 2018 #3

Heheh. blm Aug 2018 #4

Was it a plotline on Murphy Brown? RockRaven Aug 2018 #5

All in the Family? Golden Girls? This event was real life, though. blm Aug 2018 #9

The political news is keeping it out of the loop today, so - blm Aug 2018 #6

Please give a summary. Many are limited re number of free NYT articles. bobbieinok Aug 2018 #7

Matuschka's photograph of herself on cover of NYT magazine blm Aug 2018 #8

Thank you bobbieinok Aug 2018 #10

Hekate

(100,133 posts)

1. Gerald Ford's wife Betty's diagnosis, courageously going public

Reply to blm (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:55 PM

Aug 2018

Which encouraged Nancy Reagan to get checked, and she too went public with the results

Wait, that was longer ago than 25 years, wasn't it? I do remember Betty Ford's courage -- women just would not talk about this before, and certainly not on national television.

blm

(114,763 posts)

2. Even more striking and impactful than that.

Reply to Hekate (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:59 PM

Aug 2018

You’re so right about it not being discussed openly then.

Brother Buzz

(40,409 posts)

3. NFL players took a knee for breast cancer awareness?

Reply to blm (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 01:02 PM

Aug 2018

blm

(114,763 posts)

4. Heheh.

Reply to Brother Buzz (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 01:04 PM

Aug 2018

In Trump’s fevered dreams.

RockRaven

(19,754 posts)

5. Was it a plotline on Murphy Brown?

Reply to blm (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 01:18 PM

Aug 2018

I vaguely recall some TV show having a character with a breast cancer scare, but I'm not sure I correctly recall which one.

blm

(114,763 posts)

9. All in the Family? Golden Girls? This event was real life, though.

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 10:16 PM

Aug 2018

August 15, 1993 - the first ever topless photo in a major American magazine.

blm

(114,763 posts)

6. The political news is keeping it out of the loop today, so -

Reply to blm (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 01:19 PM

Aug 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/insider/breast-cancer-mastectomy-photo.html

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

7. Please give a summary. Many are limited re number of free NYT articles.

Reply to blm (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 01:42 PM

Aug 2018

blm

(114,763 posts)

8. Matuschka's photograph of herself on cover of NYT magazine

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #7)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 02:53 PM

Aug 2018

When LIFE magazine compiled their 100 Photographs That Changed the World it was included for jumpstarting the breast cancer awareness of movement.

It was incredibly courageous even as she considered it as art more than activism. You can google Beauty out of Damage if you can’t access NYT.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

10. Thank you

Reply to blm (Reply #8)

Thu Aug 16, 2018, 12:28 AM

Aug 2018

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