Tag Archive for: Cancer

Being in the Same Boat: Breast Cancer Survivors Are Racing Teammates
There are active paddlers who have metastatic breast cancer, people who have survived for decades, and people who completed treatment last year.

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.

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.

I Am a One-Breasted Woman
Yet, I refuse to be stigmatized.

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.

A Re-Defining Moment
Reader Response: From an artist, a cancer survivor, and…

Changemaker Barbara Porwit: Artist turns health challenges into personal power
by Terri Peterson Smith
"Giving these women an invitation…

Artist Barbara Porwit: Bam! Pow! Superheroes!
To me, Wonder Woman is what a woman should be: beautiful, strong and caring.

2013 Changemaker: Katy Tessman Stanoch
'Our Mama is a Beautiful Garden'
A book for children to understand…

‘It’s still me’: Cancer survivor Jan Strassburg opens her own wig shop to help women deal with hair loss.
Jan Strassburg (Photo by Amber Procaccini)
Jan Strassburg…

‘In the Body of the World’
"Everything that was happening in my body with the cancer reminded me of the carelessness with which we treat the earth, treat life, treat bodies, treat ourselves - the dishonoring."

2012 Changemaker: ‘of scars’
"... Your scars, your story, make you who you are. It's about celebrating women, as individuals and as a group."


For 2025 coverage, Minnesota Women’s Press earned a community leadership award, three photography awards, and four editorial awards, including for coverage of social issues and for our Spring 2025 “Know Your Rights” special section supported by Unidos MN. Our publisher was named Journalist of the Year by Violence Free Minnesota for gender-based violence coverage.