Looking for Pinktober Alternative buttons, shirts, charities

Traveltext · October 2018

I’m getting feedback from Stage IV folks suggesting groups such as Metavivor and MetUp are worthy recipients of donations.

Recommended reading is the site set up a couple of years ago by regulars on this thread:

www.PinktoberSucks.com

Anonymous · October 2018

Thank you ShetlandPony for this starting this thread! Big hoof/paw bump to celebrate that we're still around to educate and decimate!

I am shirting all my grown up responsibili-tees and am instead posting some stuff to show our rejection of the "Pink Culture".

(It's been a hella year - apologies to my dear friends for popping over here first)

PInK AlterNatives 2018

~ Almost all the items shown above from 2017 are still available!

Teespring for Metavivor with front and back print Sold as a tank top too, offered in 3 colors.

Take This Pink Ribbon Off My Eyes No Doubt Smoke Gray T-Shirt Front #Dontignorestage4 Metavivor.Org Smoke Gray T-Shirt Back

Cancer Lifers for Houston front\back - Other colors crew neck, V-neck and long sleeve available

#Lifer New Navy T-Shirt Front Metastatic Cancer Research Not Ribbons New Navy T-Shirt Back

MALE BREAST CANCER

Male Breast Cancer Survivor Overcome The Stigma Awareness Speak Out To Save A Brothers Life White T-Shirt Front

Anonymous · October 2018

Amazon sells shirts from Cafe Press - Some artists may make donations or have cancer, unfortunately not stated. This is the fastest way to get a shirt order though. All shirts available in different colors and styles.

For AnimalCrackers ~

F Awareness, Find a Cure

Not Dead Dont Ignore

Surviving Metastatic

breast cancer awareness one in eight

#ResearchNotRibbons

* I am bewildered at how many great products there are that denounce the ribbons but don't offer a website for a worthy charity. Does anyone know how to add text ourselves to a shirt? Sharpies, Iron on Letters....... any suggestions?

Lula73 · October 2018

This young man is handmaking these keychains and (with a little education from me) donating proceeds to METAvivor. If you are interested, PM me...

Spookiesmom · October 2018

I think Cafe Press allows you to design your own shirts. Or find a local t shirt shop and do your own. Big Frog is local for me, and on line. Doesn't get any proceeds to research, but you can wear your feelings.

DogMomRunner · August 2019

I'd like to revive this thread unless there is an updated one somewhere. I'm looking for non pink non religious/prayer cancer shirts connected to a decent charity

Jons_girl · August 2019

areyoudense.org has a great T-shirt. You have to request one through their website. But for those of us who have very dense tissue which wasn't seen on a mammo women need to know that mammos won't always see cancer. Which isn't something we are ever really told.

Also another idea...you could go to zazzle and make some T-shirt's too with whatever you want it to say.Then this community could support the effort!😊just a idea!

Jons girl

Anonymous · August 2019

👋🏼 I'm a designer in Amazons merch program. These are two of mine:

“Keep the Pink" https://www.amazon.com/Me-Breast-Cancer-Activist-T-Shirt/dp/B07VS6WD14/

“Screw the Pink" if you're a little edgier https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Screw+the+pink&i=fashion&bbn=7141124011&rh=n%3A7141123011%2Cn%3A%217141124011%2Cn%3A7147445011&dc&qid=1566338809&rnid=7141124011&ref=sr_nr_n_6

Royalties do benefit a metastatic cancer patient 👆who makes occasional donations to BCO. 😁

I would be happy to take requests for designs and either put them up on Amazon or have them printed privately for you. I can do mugs and other items, too.

Another “Don't Ignore Stage IV “ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CH6GDPZ?ref_=pe_2196150_146773810

Here's a screenshot of one design,if it isn't too large.

DogMomRunner · August 2019

thanks Jons girl and Olma!

Olma - I would love to see some shirts that state that breast cancer comes in all different types. There are 3 people at work diagnosed in the past 5 months with different types of BC. Also a HER-2 positive shirt would be great. No pink ribbons

MountainMia · August 2019

I'd love a t-shirt that says "Ask me about my hair-do."

Anonymous · August 2019

I love these ideas! I am on it!

ShetlandPony · September 2019

Bump. It’s almost Pinktober! Do you have your alternative shirts, buttons, and bags ready? And suggestions for inquirers of where their donation money will actually do some good? I like Metavivor. And of course we are grateful to BCO four having a stage iv forum.

Mavericksmom · September 2019

How about these::

Mutilated...check

Poisoned...check

burned...….check

cured.....NOT YET

OR

Ringing a bell didn't cure me!

OR

Breast Cancer Treatment Survivor

OR

Better Research, Better Treatments

OR

Give Us Treatments That DO NO HARM!

My Mood today is Frustration!

DogMomRunner · September 2019

I think I will get a metavivor shirt (even though I was stage 1). Just to let people know that BC is not always caught early stage.

Anonymous · September 2019

Hey just wanted to share - I checked Amazon Smile - Metavivor is one of the charities listed so if you buy any random item on Amazon and use Amazon Smile you can have the (small) donation go to Metavivor. Also, I went to buy one of my own breast cancer shirts from Amazon and I got an automatic popup during checkout asking if I wanted to donate through Smile - it defaulted to Susan G Komen, but there was the ability to search for a different charity and both BCO and Metavivor were choices I could make from there.

Admittedly, the donation through Smile is small, only point-5 percent. But if you do regular shopping through there too, it does add up.

moth · September 2020

Bumping for 2020 as pink month is just around the corner

ShetlandPony · September 2020

Aaaaaaaaaack! (Runs screaming away.) You’re right, moth, Pinktober is almost upon us. Time for some REAL education.

http://www.metavivor.org/

https://www.mbcalliance.org/

Traveltext · September 2020

A few years ago people here created this site:

www.pinktobersucks.com

Lots of ideas and food for thought here.

Spookiesmom · September 2020

I had this made at a local shop. Feel free to use it.

Betrayal · September 2020

Love the hat message. The AI's have not been kind to my hair; went from baby fine but lots to baby fine and lot less.

glennie19 · September 2020

That's a great cap, Spooks.

Anonymous · September 2020

This is a water bottle I had made for myself. I didn’t put it up for sale because I’m afraid of trademark issues with the drug names. 😉I think with all the h&p sales I’m responsible for, Genentech should grant me a free license, though.

Anonymous · September 2020

The "Oncologist Does My Hair" hat is a great idea! I have a shirt on Amazon with that slogan. Various colors available.

LINK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C214ZVW

Anonymous · September 2020

Chemo Hair, Don't Care

LINK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KFFL592

Chemo Hair, Don't Care 2

LINK: https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A7141123011%2Cp_4%3ACancer+Support+by+It+Doesn%27t+Have+Me

glennie19 · September 2020

Spookiesmom · September 2020

Or this😂😂

ShetlandPony · September 2020

I can see how the cute hats and shirts can help some of us sisters feel better, and go out bravely into the world! Hair loss is so noticeable, it seems like the general public sometimes thinks it’s all about the hair. Or breasts. But we know it is about lives. Most people do not know that around 30 percent of early stagers progress to stage iv/metastatic (through no fault of their own), and some are stage iv at diagnosis (through no fault of their own). The stage iv people are often made invisible in the typical awareness campaign, yet we are the ones who die of the disease. People need to know that this disease is not fun, cute, sexy, or a great free boob job. Mammograms are not a cure. We need more funding for research. Everyone whose life has been impacted by breast cancer can help educate the general public. So I started this thread as I was looking for ways to counter the Pinktober myths and trivialization of this terrible disease. Here are some sayings I have collected over the past few years on buttons, shirts, and tote bags that I show off in October:

Breast Cancer — It’s a disease, not a marketing opportunity

Think before you pink

Enough awareness; Where’s the cure?

I support research, not ribbons

Don’t Ignore Stage IV

I have had a couple friends express an interest in donating to fund research on stage iv, and directed them to Metavivor.

Spookiesmom · September 2020

I used Think before you pink in my siggy line on another forum. All women on it. NONE of them had a clue what it meant. At least 2 of them had cancer, one currently has cancer in her eyes, from BC.

Too hot for wigs here, hats help prevent sunburn. Helps cut down on the stares to a bald woman. Not just being cute.

moth · September 2020

Interesting how hard it is to convey the urgency of researching stage 4 treatments.

Merchandising seems to quickly revert to cute sayings and puns instead of emphasising something that is so full of despair.

I've been thinking of:

"30% of breast cancer is fatal"

"Breast cancer: Forget about the hair and breasts; think about the 30% who die"

ShetlandPony · September 2020

For sure, Spookiesmom. I'm a hat girl, too. I wear a wide-brim SPF hat because it seems most treatments make me extra sun-sensitive, hair or not.

Wow, moth. Those are two arresting statements.

For those looking for talking points once you have someone's attention, Metavivor has lots of great info to promote true awareness and needed research:

http://www.metavivor.org/

Also the Breast Cancer Action web site has lots of good information under their Think Before You Pink campaign:

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/about-us/

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/resources/before-you-buy/

Despair can be turned to Action.