Cancer

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This Life Rocks

When I was six, I started a kindness project called This Life Rocks. At the time, my dad was recovering from his first cancer, and I was struggling with selective mutism.

  • 02/28/2022
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The Ebb and Flow of Cancer

The fear that is most palpable to me is about the changes and loss of normalcy that will come between now and the end.

  • 12/28/2021
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I Am a One-Breasted Woman

Yet, I refuse to be stigmatized.

  • 10/25/2020
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Aasma Shaukat: Cancer Researcher

Green Card Voices released a book about immigrants in Minnesota who are engaged in STEM careers. We feature four of them in excerpted form in this Innovators issue.

  • 03/24/2020
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A Re-Defining Moment

Reader Response: From an artist, a cancer survivor, and an activist. Art as Healing Art has become a huge source of

  • 01/01/2019
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Changemaker Barbara Porwit: Artist turns health challenges into personal power

by Terri Peterson Smith “Giving these women an invitation and an opportunity to see themselves as immensely powerful, able to

  • 12/01/2015

Artist Barbara Porwit: Bam! Pow! Superheroes!

To me, Wonder Woman is what a woman should be: beautiful, strong and caring.

  • 03/02/2015