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TruthOut (Op-ed): Pink Ribbon Banking Claims to Fight Cancer But Boosts Carcinogenic Fossil Fuels (November 13, 2021)
Medium (Op-ed): Komen Continues to be Tone Deaf and Color Blind: Pink was Never the Problem (November 6, 2019)
Medium (co-authored Op-ed): 3M and the PFAS Link to Breast Cancer (October 30, 2019)
The San Francisco Chronicle (Op-ed): Pink-Ribbon Culture is Gaslighting Women (October 23, 2019)
Medium (Op-ed): Lymphedema: What You Need to Know (July 10, 2019)
Common Dreams (Op-ed): Put the Brakes on Breast Cancer (October 25, 2018)
San Francisco Chronicle (Op-ed): At-home Breast Cancer Test Nothing to Celebrate (March 15, 2018)
Cancer Health Opinions (Op-ed): Right To Try Is False Hope (March 12, 2018)
EcoWatch (Op-ed): Stop Irrigating Your Produce With Oil Wastewater (October 25, 2016)
Women’s Media Center (Op-ed): Think Pink? Think Again. (October 18, 2016)
EcoWatch (Op-ed): Chemical Safety Reform Bill Headed to Obama’s Desk Lets Down Women With and at Risk of Breast Cancer (June 6, 2016)
The Washington Post (Op-ed): Breast cancer walks are a terrible way to fight breast cancer May 4, 2016
Bitch Magazine (Member Op-ed): I Used To Walk for the Cure. Now I Work for Environmental Justice (April 19, 2016)
EcoWatch (Op-ed): Cancer Prevention Needs Attention Too: What if We Weren’t Exposed to 80,000 Toxic Chemicals Every Day? (February 1, 2016)
The New York Times (Letter to the Editor): The New Mammogram Guidelines (November 6, 2015)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): Why the American Cancer Society Must Take a Stronger Stand on Cancer Prevention (November 3, 2015)
Truthout (member Op-ed): American Cancer Society, Stop Giving Carcinogenic Cosmetics to Women With Cancer (October 29, 2015)
The Washington Post (Op-Ed): Komen is supposed to be curing breast cancer. So why is its pink ribbon on so many carcinogenic products?(October 21, 2015)
EcoWatch (Op-ed): Stop Giving Cancer Patients Toxic Cosmetics to ‘Look Good, Feel Better’ (October 19, 2015)
The Guardian (Op-ed): Why are makeup companies able to give breast cancer patients toxic products? (October 17, 2015)
Dallas Morning News (Op-ed): “In breast cancer fight, think twice before thinking pink” (October 2, 2015)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): Speeding Ineffective and Unsafe Treatments to Market in the Name of Patients? Not So Fast (July 13, 2015)
EcoWatch (Op-ed): How the TPP Trade Deal Could Increase Risk of Dying of Breast Cancer (May 14, 2015)
The Washington Post (Op-ed): Stop routine breast-cancer screenings. Science has shown they don’t save lives. (May 5, 2015)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): USPSTF Draft Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Don’t Go Far Enough. (April 23, 2015)
EcoWatch Insight (Op-ed): Why Fracking Is a Breast Cancer Issue (January 27, 2015)
Huffington Post (Op-ed): Genetic Testing for All Women? Not a Solution to the Breast Cancer Epidemic (November 24, 2014)
The Guardian (Op-ed): The NFL’s breast cancer scam sells bunk science to profit off pink clothes (October 5, 2014)
San Francisco Chronicle: Ruling helps rein in the Wild West of genetic testing (March 17, 2014)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): On Mastectomies, Pink Ribbon Culture, and Women’s Choices (July 31, 2014)
The Guardian (Op-ed): Breast cancer mammograms: overrated – and over-diagnosing women (April 28, 2014)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): Genetic Testing Should Adhere to Medical, Not Business, Ethics: FDA’s Regulation of 23andMe Is a Welcome Move for Consumers (December 1, 2013)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): The Chemical Safety Improvement Act Falls Short: Open Letter to Congress (November 12, 2013)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): Updating the Toxic Substance Control Act and Haley’s Ribbon: Looping Back to Breast Cancer Prevention (November 8, 2013)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): Bottle Tops and Breast Cancer: Pushing Mammograms With Every Prescription (October 30, 2013)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): We Can’t Waste Another October: End Pinkwashing and Stop Cancer Before It Starts (October 24, 2013)
San Francisco Chronicle (Letter to the Editor): “Fracking, breast cancer” (August 31, 2013)
Huffington Post (Op-ed): 40 Years Later, Relearning That Sometimes Less Is More in Breast Cancer (August 16, 2013)
The Huffington Post (Op-ed): Climate Action Plan, EPA and Breast Cancer: We Won’t Trade Our Health for Reduced Carbon Emissions (July 29, 2013)
Los Angeles Times (Op-ed): Who should own DNA? All of us (April 12, 2013)