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"I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy."

Angelina Jolie This guest post by Melissa McEwan appears at her blog Shakesville and is cross-posted with permission. Angelina Jolie has written an extraordinary op-ed for the New York Times, titled “My Medical Choice,” about her recent decision to have a preventative double mastectomy after learning she carries the BRCA1 “breast cancer” gene and had … Continue reading “"I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy."”

2013 Golden Globes Week: Big Bang Bust

This is a guest post by Melissa McEwan and is cross-posted with permission from her blog Shakesville. I have never been a great lover of sitcoms. Despite their ubiquity in American primetime television, especially when I was growing up, there just weren’t a lot of them for me to love. So much of the com … Continue reading “2013 Golden Globes Week: Big Bang Bust”