My BadASS Life

This post was originally meant to be a musical tribute to love. Simple, right? Wrong...in the course of creating the music video, I realized that while no one can take our love away, our government and the Christian Nationalists running it, are trying (and succeeding) in rolling back all of the rights we fought so hard to gain in the last 25 years since we've been together. One of those rights is the right to marry the person we love.

I didn’t fight like hell to survive stage 3b rectal cancer to sit on the sidelines of my life and watch it be torn down without a fight. To be dismissed, marginalized, disparaged, disregarded and discounted. You may have noticed I took a break from posting My Badass Life Videos for a minute… I (like many) have been exhausted just trying to process the firehose of news that impacts our lives on a daily basis. (Never ask if it can get worse). Both as a cancer survivor, as women

It’s been a very heavy #PrideMonth for #LGBTQ+ people in our country, and as an LGBTQ+ person and a cancer survivor, it's getting harder to stay hopeful. This is a call to action for straight allies.

Nine states have jumped on the bandwagon petitioning the Supreme Court to end Same Sex Marriage rights. Why should you care?

As a cancer survivor of one of the most prevalent and deadly yet most underfunded cancers, and an LGBTQ person, I'm asking you to VOTE!

12 Tips for After You Are Diagnosed with CRC - Part of my mission is to help other Colorectal Cancer survivors.

How having Rectal Cancer is a Little Like Being Gay!