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2025: A Year that tested all of us— and Our Hopes for 2026

For the Breast of Us is stepping into one of our toughest seasons yet. With nationwide cuts to DEI funding, the programs that hold our community together are at risk. From Baddie Boost and our quarterly meetups to the Baddie Ambassador Program, Baddie2Baddie Podcast, and even BaddieCon — everything we’ve built for Black and Brown women facing breast cancer needs your support to survive. This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking our community to help us hold this space up and hold it together. Your donation keeps our programs alive, our stories seen, and our sisterhood protected.

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Hold Us Up. Hold Us Together: Why This Giving Season Matters More Than Ever

For the Breast of Us is stepping into one of our toughest seasons yet. With nationwide cuts to DEI funding, the programs that hold our community together are at risk. From Baddie Boost and our quarterly meetups to the Baddie Ambassador Program, Baddie2Baddie Podcast, and even BaddieCon — everything we’ve built for Black and Brown women facing breast cancer needs your support to survive. This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking our community to help us hold this space up and hold it together. Your donation keeps our programs alive, our stories seen, and our sisterhood protected.

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Rest Is the New Strong

Metastatic breast cancer and, honestly, depression too, taught me that life’s not about how much I can push through. It’s about how well I love myself through it.

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Walking That Tightrope Between Faith and Fear

These days, life feels like walking a tightrope between faith and fear. And when I say faith, I’m not talking about religion. I mean that deep-down belief that somehow, I’ll keep finding my way through. That I’ve made it through every hard day before this one, so I probably can handle this one too. But fear? Oh, she still pops up. Loud and uninvited.

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Soft Girl Era, Hard Truths: When Advocacy Drains You as Much as Cancer

“They told me breast cancer would make me stronger, but nobody warned me it could make me softer, too. Not weak-soft…sacred-soft. The kind of softness that wears silk robes, sets boundaries like a boss, and still shows up to fight for Black and Brown bodies in this messy political climate. My soft-girl era isn’t canceled, sis… it’s thriving.”

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Good Vibes Don’t Cure Cancer

For the whole breast cancer community, especially those living with metastatic disease. If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer – at any stage – you’ve

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