My hair and I have gone through quite the journey. I don't want to say that I was my hair I kind of linked my identity and self-confidence through my hair. When I did have hair, I always made sure that it was done except for when I was bumming it around campus. But if I was in real clothes, I d…

It's been two weeks since I gave a speech that wasn’t forced upon me by a class syllabus. #adult. I guess that’s when you know you’re no longer in the safety bubble of a university classroom.  SIDE NOTE: upon learning from my mom earlier this week, this is not my first speech – I gave one when I…

I know about my family history. I saw my mom go through breast cancer and heard stories that my great-grandmother on my grandfather's side died fairly young from breast cancer.

Genetics is complicated.


What is the BRCA gene?According to the National Insitute of Cancer, BRCA 1 and BRCA2 produce t…