Over the last few days Calendar Girl has provided rich, beautiful and moving descriptions of the proceedings of the World Conference on Breast Cancer which wound up yesterrday.
Breast Stories is committed to incresaing understanding between men and women. Up until now, I haven't thought much about posting specific breast cancer stories - although quite obviously breast cancer is a major part of womens' experience and thoughts about breasts.
Partly my avoidance of this topic has been because I have no direct experience of it. I don't personally know anyone with breast cancer. But there is something deeper happening. Partly I want to avoid it because part of me wants to pretend it doesn't happen to people I know. That part of me wants to maintain a purely romantic view of breasts.
Well Calendar Girl's postings have changed that. I want to understand more about the dark side of breasts and I want this site to help promote understanding. I don't know exactly what form that will take, but it's something I am determined to do.
That's not to say that the site will change dramatically. It is to say that it will become more inclusive. At least I hope it will.
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