I Love Boobies Bracelets Causing a Ruckus
Lately we’ve been getting lot’s of letters. Mainly from proud parents, supporting their rad kids, who are standing up for what they believe in, or from teenagers who are pissed at their administration for telling them they can’t support something they believe in, and even letters from angry principals and parents calling us perverted.
The entire idea of the campaign is to take this serious horrible subject, break the ice, and make it easy to talk about. We tell all the principals that this is actually their OPPORTUNITY, to talk to their students about an issue that effects them and is important to them, take this opportunity to educate your students on how they can prevent breast cancer.
THANK YOU to all of you, who are standing up, and telling your schools, you have freedom of speech, and freedom to support causes that are important to you.
You can now buy the I love Boobies bracelets in BULK here!
Click to read our official statement on the I LOVE BOOBIES! Campaign
The Keep A Breast Foundation’s (KAB) Mission is to help eradicate breast cancer by exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support. Through art events, educational programs and fundraising efforts, we seek to increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well-being.
Keep A Breast’s “I Love Boobies” Campaign is a unique national campaign that develops a new approach and positive style of communication about breast cancer. The campaign is meant to encourage young people to target their breast health. The T-shirts and bracelets act as an awareness-raising tool, allowing young people to engage and start talking about a subject that is scary and taboo and making it positive and upbeat.
KAB acknowledges and enables the fact that young people do want to be activists, to play a part of a bigger and better good. It takes a uniquely strong and well-informed person to participate in the “I Love Boobies” Campaign, someone eager and able to engage in conversation. The campaign allows young people impacted by breast cancer get a chance to express their inner feelings, make connections with others and learn coping strategies helpful to them and their loved ones.
Although the incidence of breast cancer in young women is much lower than that of older women, young women’s breast cancers are generally more aggressive, are diagnosed at a later stage, and result in lower survival rates. In fact, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in young women under the age of 40. Despite these facts, many young women mistakenly believe that breast cancer is only a problem for women over 40 years old. As a result, diagnoses are delayed and young women’s lives are cut short. Keep A Breast educates young women and better enable health care professionals to identify the specific threats and warning signs of breast cancer, which will lead to early diagnoses and saved lives.
By wearing a “I Love Boobies!” bracelet or shirt you are proclaiming, “I love my boobies, and I choose to take care of them!” It is a message about how important it is to appreciate, respect and love your breasts and yourself. Many women develop a negative attitude towards their breasts and put so much energy into criticizing them or wishing they were different somehow. Keep A Breast wants to break down the shame that is so deeply rooted in body image and realize you’re your breasts are an amazingly important and beautiful part of you, and the vital role in our body. Knowledge is power, by knowing you body and knowing your
breasts you are taking the first step to prevention. Prevention is the Cure.
Keep A Breast and their “I Love Boobies” Campaign is the proud winner of the following honor and awards:
- Yoplait Champion Award to Shaney jo Darden, Executive Director
- Alternative Press, 25 most influential people in the music industry, Award to Shaney jo Darden, Executive Director
- Glue Network Beneficiary
- The SIMA Humanitarian Fund Award Recipient
- Emergen-C “pink lemonade” Beneficiary
- The Quiksilver Foundation, International Breast Cancer Initiative
- The “My Space Impact Award” for Health and Safety
Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer awareness, Breast cancer prevention, i love, I love boobies, i love boobies bracelet, KAB, keep a breast, keep-a-breast.org
February 4th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Hello,
I support your ideas, but I hate your bracelet as a public school teacher with a conservative school board. As a feminist, I find it horrible that we continue to teach our kids that it’s okay to use language that sexually objectifies our bodies.
I think as artists you can find more creative, more aware ways to reach and teach our young men and women to take care of their bodies with respect, not a derogatory juvenile term. As a classroom teacher, I do take the time to use your bracelet as a “teachable moment”, but I really don’t have the time in my curriculum as I prepare students for their Exit graduation requirements. Most of the boys who wear your bracelet just know they are “supporting breast cancer” and it’s a great reason to proclaim what we all know about boys, they like boobies. (They’ve all watched Ron White)
And I have learned that most girls find them offensive. These are the shy girls that don’t say much.
Mostly, I am busy and I am tired of the distraction that in order to keep my supervisors happy means I keep collecting your bracelets.
Thank you for listening, please don’t put down schools, principals, and teachers. We are working will all your kids; we don’t get paid much.
Angela
Small Texas School District
February 5th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I just got my bracelet today, and I wore it at school.
My P.E. teacher and science teacher both got mad at me for wearing your bracelets.
I wore it anyway
That’s what I call standing up for what I believe in!
Anyway, I just want to tell you what a good job of spreading the word and how awesome your bracelets and shirts are!
February 7th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Your so effing dumb! its not talking sexual its supporting what we believe in! go away
February 11th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
you should make them in more colors cuz i have one but i would really like it if they had a purple one
February 12th, 2010 at 9:38 am
As a Principal in a Jr. High School, I am offended that your group needs to go to this extreme to support breast cancer. My students are not interested in your movement, they simply want to wear a bracelet with “I love Boobies” written on it. They continue to buy them, and I am not sold on the fact that your organization is forthright in all your efforts. I would like to see how your members would run a school with these types of distractions. I don’t believe you have to resort to this campaign to get the breast cancer message across. The kids get one message. “I am cool because I am 12 and wear a “Boobies” bracelet. I encourage you to find another way. What happened to the pink ribbons? Our students will receive these for each bracelet collected. Why don’t you think they are wearing these all around school? If they really want to support breast cancer awareness, the ribbon as a symbol would be much more appropriate. Finally, what about the lack of sensitivity to the breast cancer survivors who do not have breasts anymore?
February 14th, 2010 at 8:57 am
Did any of you ever ask a woman who has lost one or both breasts to breast cancer how she feels about the wording you are using? Did you ever consider if she might find it hurtful or offensive?
February 15th, 2010 at 10:29 am
We work with many breast cancer survivors who love our messaging, as well as having young survivors on staff and on our board of directors. Feel free to email us at info@keep-a-breast.org for more information.
I would also like to share one of the things Keep A Breast is known for outside of the bracelets, which is our breast cast exhibitions. These casts are part of KAB’s unique campaigns to use art and artistic expression to inform young people about methods of prevention, early detection, coping and support.
This awareness campaign is like no other, harnessing the power of art to communicate complex feelings and thoughts about health, the female form and ultimately about breast cancer. We bring these casts with us at all our traveling education booths and outreach that we do. It is absolutely incredible to be witness to casting a woman that is newly diagnosed and that has faced a dramatic change to their form via the loss of a breast or partial removal of a breast or shrinkage of a breast caused by radiation. Many of them are shy and ashamed of their body, and then we send these casts to an artist and it becomes a beautiful piece of art. Going from being scared to show their body to so proud and finding it beautiful gives us the absolute and overwhelming feeling that the work Keep A Breast is doing is important.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I wear a pink i <3 boobies bracelet, because my wife once had a breast cancer scare. And my family history is plagued with breast cancer. I worked for General Dynamics as a gunsmith. I did not take the bracelet off while supporting military(I was a gunsmith, we did inspections). So on my final mission, I was approached by a woman on one of our teams. She proceeded to rip into me, because she felt a bracelet that said "i love boobies" was unprofessional, and not a good public image for the company. I let her do her whole thing, and when she was finished. I told her it was for a non profit org. doing breast cancer awareness. She stumbled around her words, and tried to say it was unprofessional still, she shut up when I said as a woman you should support any sort of awareness of breast cancer, are you a fan of cancer on facebook? She gave me a glaring look, and walked away. TAKE THAT CANCER FAN!
February 24th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I’m a teacher… and a friend of many women who have survived breast cancer. If I thought my students were genuinely wearing the bracelet to support the cause of breast cancer, I would leave them alone. I take the bracelets and am amassing a huge collection. If a student is wearing one, I ask them what else they have done to support the cause. If they can’t answer, I take it. We are actually having a contest to see which teacher can confiscate the most of them. Coincidentally, these are kids that have clocked ZERO hours of community service. If they are so appropriate, make some that say “I love colons” or perhaps “I love prostates” or even “I love testicles”… all other cancers that are rampant. If you made just a plain pink bracelet, without the word boobies on it, they wouldn’t wear it… so are they really in support of your cause or just taking advantage of the opportunity to use your cause to be inappropriate?
February 25th, 2010 at 12:13 am
my girlfriend of three years bought me this bracelet and im proud to wear it, my grandma has had breast cancer three times. teachers at my school take them on a regular basis, i refuse to take mine off and im proud to be able to support this awareness. any teacher that gets offended by the word boobies needs two big wake up calls (no pun intended) one. that we are in a new generation and older methods of awareness are not going to work, if your aware you can be prepared and posibly save lives. two. if you cant handle “boobies” than dont teach health, sex ed, or show that “miracle of life” video. get over and educate todays youth
February 26th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
The point of these bracelets is to raise awarness. And it’s a good thing that these bracelets are controversial, because it is raising awarness. And yes, kids might just be wearing them because they say boobies, but doesn’t that still get the message out? And I do understand why middle schools ban them, but high schools shouldn’t because, although rare, breast cancer can effect teenagers. My friend was diagnosed when she was 20, but by then, it was too late. We need to get the message out that breast cancer can effect anyone, even men. And I have not met one girl that found my bracelets offensive. They might have at first, but I explain it’s a non profit breast cancer awarness organization. Adults find this offensive because this campaign isn’t aimed at them, but it’s aimed at teenagers. Like it or not, we are growing up in a different generation.
I’ve finished over 50 hours of community service dealing with cancer and I have 5 bracelets. I don’t have these bracelets because it says boobies on it. I have it because I want a cure for cancer found before my mom goes through what my grand mother went through. So I never have to lose a friend to cancer, or watch my sister suffer. That’s why I wear my bracelets.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
I bought my daughter one of these bracelets yesterday. I really hope her teachers do not take it away from her. If they try she will tell them it’s freedom of expression, first amendment. She should be able to support whatever causes she believes in. She’ll also tell them to feel free to call her Mom
PS the teacher who commented about having a contest to see who can confiscate the most bracelets is a very sad individual. It’s the teacher’s that do that that encourage the kids to wear them to get attention. If conservative people would stop making such a big deal out of it, it wouldn’t be an issue. It’s cool that kids want to support breast cancer awareness and research.
March 22nd, 2010 at 7:17 am
I just wanted to know what exactly the symbol is inside the heart on the bracelet
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:20 am
That is our logo – It is a heart with breasts.
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:53 am
i havee likkee 7 i<33Boobieess braclets! OMG! i freaking lovee themm, all my friends havee them! there likee a trenndd ! anddi lovee themm . omg.! haahaa I think theeyy really helpdd soo yahh just wantedd to let yall know.! everyy onee lovess them my mom bought onee!!
March 30th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
I’m a female student myself and I find these very offensive. Kids don’t really care about their rights, such as free speech, they just want to get a reaction out of somebody. Rebels are so cool. Not really.
You wouldn’t see boys wearing “I <3 Balls" bracelets. Even if they really wanted to support testicle cancer awareness, their peers would tease them and question their sexual orientation. But no, they have a bracelet that says Boobies on them, it's totally different.
You're not even affiliated with the American Cancer Society, so I'm assuming none of the money is going to the ADVANCEMENT towards finding a CURE. I don't really care what the intention was, your bracelets have turned breast cancer into a joke.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:24 am
I am the stepfather of a wonderful girl who goes to South Glens Falls High School. My stepdaughter had her bracelet confiscated yesterday and was extremely upset. Her mother called the school only to be belittled by the staff. She was told that we must have poor family morals. It is a sad day when the people who are supposed to be support for our children have nothing better to do than rip apart support groups because one or two adults find the word boobies offensive. She was even wearing the bracelet inside out so you couldn’t see the wording! Tell me teachers what kind of ruckus is this causing in your classrooms? Do the kids not listen to you because of a bracelet? Are they violent because of the bracelet? Do they attack others who don’t wear one? With all of the other issues plaguing the school system don’t you think you have more important things to worry about? How about the drop out rate, or bullying? Teenagers are naturally rebellious. Do you think there would be such an issue if you weren’t so opposed to a harmless breast cancer awareness bracelet? The person who answered the phone at the high school office compared wearing this bracelet to condoning guns, and speeding on the interstate. Someone needs to take some anger management classes. Or at the very least, find a new occupation because frankly with an attitude like that, what kind of support are you offering our young people? Every generation of kids have there own form of expression. Every older generation hates it. When are we going to learn from the past? How about as a society we offer our children support and understanding for a change? Who knows it could possibly save a life. Too many children feel misunderstood, and alone. How about we work to change that. I mean honestly, because of the word boobies? Women point to your chest and ask any young child what are these? What do you think the answer will be. Boobies. To the teacher who asked about the testicle bracelet. I would wear a bracelet that said “Save the balls”.
April 9th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
my princible took my boobie bracelet for the rest of the year!!! is he even allowed to do that? cause im just gonna buy another one today, just to get him mad.
April 12th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/local/Controversial-bracelet-causes-uproar
April 19th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
@ t h in my school even girls wear them no one calls them lesbians?
April 19th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
my school is really serious about this and over enlarging it, and so so are me and my friends. i got two days of detention for wearing mine. and our school even had a lawyer come and talk to the teachers about it. they say it innapropreate for 5th and 6th graders, im in 8th, but im pritty sure they know what the word boob means..and i have had two aunts that had breast cancer and one of them died from it so im going to support in any way i would like to. the dean also says it supports breast cancer in no way, and that it dosent give money at all, but i think the teachers need to get over themselves, and then we will. so I <3 boobies and im proud.
April 19th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
and to T H who commented earlier…boys actually do wear them, my friend whos mom had breat cancer had his taken away. so think about it.
April 21st, 2010 at 8:38 am
Personally I love the bracelets…and if the teens of america are wearing them to be cool who cares…if just one person who wasnt aware of breast cancer becomes aware, reguardless of age then it has already done its job! I allow my kids to wear them…and with pride. It was my job to educate each of them as to why they are important. There boobs for Gods sake…we all have them! Unfortunately some dont have them anymore and thats what I teach my kids…awareness is important! These schools should start worrying about the drugs and alcohol roaming the halls…sigh priorities people! Educate them then let them wear them for the cause!
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:37 pm
I am a teacher with a mother who is a 13 year breast cancer survivor and I find the wrist bands to be a vulgar statement that objectifies women and makes a joke of their anatomy for the general sake of teenage shock value. If the schools can try to do anything, they can try to stamp out vulgarity. What’s next? “Kiss a dick” bracelets for prostate cancer awareness? “F-bomb” bracelets to stop teen pregnancy? Let’s see these kids really get behind the cause with volunteer action and participation in walks and fund raising instead.
April 24th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
I just bought my “I love Boobies” bracelet, and I think it is just fine to wear them! People need to stop worrying just because it says boobies on them, like they said before, at least they now know about it! My grandmas friend got diagosed with breasy cancer 2 years ago, and she fortunately didnt lose any breats, i showed her my bracelet and she loved it, so if you teacher are worried about it go ask some people with breast cancer and see what they say about it! >:(
April 27th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Jill,
Keep A Breast’s “I Love Boobies” Campaign is a unique national campaign that develops a new approach and positive style of communication about breast cancer. The campaign is meant to encourage young people to target their breast health. The T-shirts and bracelets act as an awareness-raising tool, allowing young people to engage and start talking about a subject that is scary and taboo and making it positive and upbeat. It is in no way supposed to be a negative or a disrespectful saying. Yes it is a unexpected and unconventional way to grab your attention but we fully believe that there are more people out there that see the message behind the bracelets than use them in a perverse manner.
We dont believe that t objectifies wemon, but rather it is a message about how important it is to appreciate, respect and love your breasts and yourself. Many women develop a negative attitude towards their breasts and put so much energy into criticizing them or wishing they were different somehow. Keep A Breast wants to break down the shame that is so deeply rooted in body image and realize you’re your breasts are an amazingly important and beautiful part of you, and the vital role in our body. Knowledge is power, by knowing you body and knowing your breasts you are taking the first step to prevention.
We have a great program that allows anyone to play a role with KAB and throw his or her very own benefit show in support of the cause. This campaign acknowledges and enables the fact that young people do want to be activists, to play a part of a bigger and better good. This was developed to provide an outlet that inspires people to better themselves and their communities.
May 1st, 2010 at 12:06 am
i love these bracelets and wear them for my grandmother who has had breast cancer in both breasts now of last month but is there any way to get your older ones that were not an inch thick? they fit better and i used to wear all the time
May 3rd, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I like these bracletts and would like to know where to get one. I am afraid to give out to a website my name or email so I am sorry about this but I would still like to know how to get one. So if you can, please write back to this comment so I also, may speak out to breast cance.
May 4th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
I’m sure that the kids who are wearing these braceletes have never dealt with breast cancer. They have probably never seen a woman go through chemo and the side effects that chemo causes. Are they aware that chemo causes you to lose control of your bowels so that you do not feel comfortable even going out in public for fear that you may have an accident? Are they aware of the pain a woman suffers as a radioactive substance is injected into her breasts to test if the cancer has entered her lymphoid glands? A pain that is more excruciating than childbirth? And the pain that is caused as your skin is burned from the radiation treatments? Have these students ever had to deal with the feeling of losing their feminine identity when the doctors have no other alternative than to remove her breasts when the cancer returns 2 years later? Have these students ever watched a woman die in bed from breast cancer? When her body becomes too weak to even open her eyes? Not to mention to $20,000 in medical bills that she must worry about paying off before she dies because her insurance company refused to pay. Where do these bracelets tell students about these issues? Where does the money from these bracelets go? Awareness? Students are already aware of breast cancer!!!!!!! Why doesn’t this company donate some money to peoples’ medical costs? Your bracelets make cancer a joke and you know it! Just read your mesasages from your teenage population. They are uninformed! Where is this information about breast cancer prevention? I DON”T SEE IT ON YOUR WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 5th, 2010 at 8:40 am
You can buy them on our website as well as many participating stores like Amazon, Zumiez, Sun Diego and others.
May 5th, 2010 at 8:41 am
We do the thinner ones through Spencers once a year however I think we wont be doing them for another year. Email info@keep-a-breast.org and say you commented on the site to get one and I can mail you out one!
May 5th, 2010 at 8:49 am
Terra, I’m sorry to hear about your concern. Although many of these young kids may have not experienced some of the things you have mentioned many of them have seen their mothers, sisters, aunts or grandmothers go though those steps. Here at Keep A Breast we believe that when breast cancer hits a family all involved are impacted, and for young people pink ribbons might not resonate with him as passionately as a foundation that works
with artists and musicians that young people look up to, at venues that they are already at.
Keep A Breast’s “I Love Boobies” Campaign is a unique national campaign that develops a new approach and positive style of communication about breast cancer. The campaign is meant to encourage young people to target their breast health. The T-shirts and bracelets act as an awareness-raising tool, allowing young people to engage and start talking about a subject that is scary and taboo and making it positive and upbeat as well as the bracelets allow young people to support KAB and engage in conversation with kids that might be going through the same emotions whether that is body image, dealing with the diagnosis of a loved one, or generally their thoughts on cancer.
The Keep A Breast Traveling Education Booth is on the road a total of 241 days this year, we will set up in 55 different cities, 4 providences, and 10 countries as well as set up at 9 festivals passing out self breast exam cards, informing and educating young people about the dangers of toxic chemicals in our environment and food supply and their link to breast cancer initiation. Our aim is to inspire a focus on prevention as a means to maintain long-term health and well-being. NTR will also provide alternative choices so that young people everywhere can make smart choices. We have 8 years of success and testimonies from young people all over the world who have met KAB’s “traveling education booth” and learned how to examine their breasts, and have later found a cancerous lump and because they met KAB they found it early, they have a much better survival rate. Nearly three million people visit our site every month and learn healthy tips, ways of support and have a chance to express their inner feelings, make connections with others and learn coping strategies helpful to them and their loved ones.
I encourage you to browse our Health page, come to an event, as well as I would also like to share one of the things Keep A Breast is known for outside of the bracelets, which is our breast cast exhibitions. These casts are part of KAB’s unique campaigns to use art and artistic expression to inform young people about methods of prevention, early detection, coping and support. This awareness campaign is like no other, harnessing the power of art to communicate complex feelings and thoughts about health, the female form and ultimately about breast cancer. We bring these casts with us at all our traveling education booths and outreach that we do. It is absolutely incredible to be witness to casting a woman that is newly diagnosed and that has faced a dramatic change to their form via the loss of a breast or partial removal of a breast or shrinkage of a breast caused by radiation. Many of them are shy and ashamed of their body, and then we send these casts to an artist and it becomes a beautiful piece of art. Going from being scared to show their body to so proud and finding it beautiful gives us the absolute and overwhelming feeling that the work Keep A Breast is doing is important.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
I’m a middle school teacher. These bracelets have a positive message, and that’s all there is to it. The above comments make me feel so uncomfortable b/c of the way that the writers describe young people, as ignorant and offensive, only wearing bracelets to be an indecent rebel/dissident, with no knowledge of the cause. That’s so sad. My students have always been bright and caring, much more caring and generous than many adults I know. Also, this is such an exciting teachable moment, and we do have time to talk with students about health and cancer awareness–it’s part of our required state curriculum. When schools ban items that cause no harm to others, it’s only going to make students want them more. Rather, I would hope that schools could feel empowered to educate their students about the real issue at stake and express that the school will allow the bracelets if the intentions of the students are thoughtful and good. Also, this would be a great segue to have a leadership student group have a local awareness/fundraising campaign for breast cancer. Long story short, middle school students are so loving and wonderful! Stop bringing them down, instead inspire them to care, become educated about important causes, and take a stand. Also, boobies is a much more acceptable term than others that people have compared it to. It’s 2010. Ummm….Oprah said, “vajayjay.” Keep up the fundraising! I hope that the bracelets are recyclable since all these people keep throwing them out:-). Even though I disagree with the above teachers, I still love them all! We have our differences (and are usually the most outspoken about them), but we’re all trying our best, and our hearts are totally in the right place.
May 11th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
In November 2009, my 36-year old aunt had to undergo surgery in order to remove suspicious lumps in her breasts. Luckily, her biopsy came back without cancer, but indicated a kind of mass that doubles her chances of getting breast cancer in her lifetime. After watching what my aunt went through, and because I valued and appreciated her frank and open comments in discussing her diagnosis with me, a teenage boy, I decided to become an advocate in the fight against Breast Cancer.
Cancer is a large-scale and pervasive disease. From a quick internet search, I found out an estimated 1.4 million women are diagnosed with Breast Cancer each year. It is also estimated that approximately 40,000 women will die from Breast Cancer each year, and 1 out of 7 women get Breast Cancer at some point in there lifetime. Sadly, medical research on an overwhelming female problem, has been years behind where it should be. It has only been recently that women’s medical research has been made a national priority.
I support women. I support the fight against breast cancer. My high school does not support Breast Cancer. My high school has disapproved of the “I Love Boobies!” bracelets. This bracelet is a fundraiser of the Keep-a-breast organization. The mission of this world wide organization is to “help eradicate breast cancer by exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support. Through art events, educational programs and fundraising efforts, we seek to increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well-being.”(keep-a-breast.org). . “The entire idea of the campaign is to take this serious horrible subject, break the ice, and make it easy to talk about. We tell all the school principals that this is actually their OPPORTUNITY, to talk to their students about an issue that effects them and is important to them, take this opportunity to educate your students on how they can prevent breast cancer.” (http://www.keep-a-breast.org/archives/2453). On the inside of each bracelet, the keep-a-breast.org website is imprinted.
I like wearing my bracelet, and every time someone asks what my bracelet says, or snickers at the “I love Boobies” insignia, I remind them that the mission is to eradicate breast cancer. Maybe some of the people who buy one of these bracelets do not have the most pure intentions. But whatever their motivations, each individual that buys one of these bracelets donates money to breast cancer. Since most schools have banned these bracelets their students cannot donate to breast cancer. I think that breast cancer is a huge concern to modern economy. I don’t believe the word “boobies” is obscene. And I do believe this organization has created an amazing way to draw in young people into the fight against breast cancer by creating a rubber bracelet “cool” to pop culture. I am proud to wear these bracelets and I think schools should also.
I love boobies. I do. I love my mom and my aunts and my grandmas and someday I hope to love a spouse. I hope that someday breast cancer becomes a thing of the past so that women won’t have to undergo surgery, radiation, and sometimes even die from such a terrible disease. I love boobies. Why don’t you?
May 16th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Hi, my name is Jessica i go to Goddard High School and for the past week or so i have been getting told to turn over or take off my breast cancer bracelet that says I Heart boobies (keep a breast). I have 1 aunt that died from breast cancer and 1 that survived. On thursday i was sent to the office because i refused to take it off or flip it inside out. I talked to my assistant principal and tryed to explain that i wear the bracelet for a purpose and told him about my aunt’s. His exact words to me where “I dont care, You cannot wear that to school”. My grandma thinks its dumb that they are telling me to take it off or turn it inside out. Me and my brother want to fight it! There is no where in the rules in the school agenda saying you cant wear this bracelet! I know there are so many people that support breast cancer and the teacher that keeps telling me i need to take it off is the only one that tells me i have to take it off or turn it insode out I have told this teacher that I think he doesnt support it he pretty much told me think what you want but you cant wear it. I think i should be able to wear it to school because itd for a purpose and I know so many others that wear them to school. I was also told at derby your aloud to wear them, I dont know if that is true but i still feel there is no harm in the bracelet its support for breast cancer! All the people I know wear the bracelet because they support breast cancer but the teachers at my school take it totally wrong!
May 16th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Okay, these wristbands aren’t inappropriate at all. They are cool, and support a good cause. My grandmother has breast cancer and so many others I know. They aren’t sexual at all, and they just are to support a cause. I plan to wear mine to work tomorrow, and if people say something, I’ll tell ‘em off.
I <3 Boobies.
May 27th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
i want purple i would pay 100 dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 27th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
purple i have every color and want purple do they make it any where
May 27th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
i agree jessica im 9 years old and i go to forrestdale school and i dontn have to turn i t inside out you should fight for it if you belive in it you do what you want!!!!!!!!!!!!! do i
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May 29th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
do any of you realize that most kids wouldnt go out of their way to help raise money?and the pink ribbon has been out for years. i think this is a great idea. it is really putting the ord out there to kids and more kids will be interested than before. this organization has an answer to every negative comment. don’t you think they might actually have a point here?
p.s. teachers, you take everything away.
May 29th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
stop hating on these braclets already. they are cool and they really help spread the word. it’s a catchy slogan and most kids across the country know what they are and exactly what they are for.
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Yes, imma girl. and I have 6 of these wonderful braclets! <3
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:59 pm
You can buy purple on Zumiez Couch Tour!
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:14 pm
So i just bought the pack of 6 bracelets. I wear one everyday. I am in 10th grade and i think that everyone who is saying kids arnt wearing them for the right reason may be right in some ways but if you think aobut it all the money these kids are spending on them go to suporting breast cancer. Well where i live they do. My school has not made any big deal over these and we are aloud to wear them. People who say the word boobie is wrong are dumb. Would you rather it say tittys or something. I fully support this and will continue to wear these bracelets. If any principle or administrator tries to take it away i will argue this to death. I support<3
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
i really want one of these braceletss !! my said i can’t have one and made my dad say the same thing !! she said i could have the glamour kills bracelet , which is awesomee . but i want the i <3 Boobies bracelet alsoo ! my friends mom had breast cancer and i want to support it . im only 11 but still ! do you know anyway to convince her to let me have one ?
June 4th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Kaayy, Check out our page http://www.keep-a-breast.org/programs/i-love-boobies – Tell your parents why you want to support and how seriosus you take the program. I think its great they are willing to compromise. Be happy you have awesome parents!
June 9th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Hi,
I’m in middle school and completly support this campain. The only problem is that my school believes that they are against dress code. When in fact i have looked up our dress code and found out that no braclet is banned from school.
Over 75% of our student body wears the “i love boobies” braclets and are gforce to remove them. We have explained to students that it is our right as americans to wear these braclets but they threaten detention. I have gotten 1 detention for not removing this braclet.
Seven teachers at our school proudly sport their own i love boobies braclets and refuse to remove them.
It’s an issue I’m hoping to resolve.
-Hannah
Conn.
June 10th, 2010 at 10:21 am
I love this idea! I work in retail, and I have seen soooooo many people come in with these bracelets on. People who are getting offended by this are way too sensitive. Not only teenagers but young adults are wearing them because they say boobies. The point is, in buying these bracelets, whether they are aware of it or not, they are supporting breast cancer, and by wearing them they bring attention to issue. I see other customers and even people that I work with asking the people wearing these bracelets what they are for and where they can get them. The campaign is doing exactly what it wants, raising awareness. I was asked by 6 employees to find out how to get these bracelets and I am getting us all a bracelet today! I wear on my wrist a cervical cancer bracelet, a testicular cancer bracelet and a pet cancer bracelet already, I can’t wait to add this new bracelet! If my cervical cancer bracelet said I love vaginas, or my testicular cancer bracelet said I love balls, I would still wear it proudly, knowing that I am supporting a good cause. People are getting offended way too easily. Let people wear them and quit complaining, it’s an awesome cause that we should all support no matter what, we need to learn to get along and support an issue as one, instead of arguing over something like a word on a bracelet!
June 12th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
I cannot believe how ignorant teachers are being about these bracelets. It’s just a word! There is nothing wrong about the human body and i don’t see how the word “Boobies” is bad. Do you want kids to ashamed about their bodies? One teacher said that they are doing nothing by wearing these bracelets. Yes, they actual are. The proceeds go to help find a cure for breast cancer. I swear, people need to stop taking everything away from kids and let them express themselves more. It’s 2010, not 1910.
June 18th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I think many teachers and school administrators here are missing the point. The point IS for the bracelets to be noticeable and cause a distraction so the subject of breast cancer/prevention can be a topic that’s more readily discussed. I went to a conservative public school in Tyler, TX and my mother is also a teacher for the district. Her and many other teachers like her see nothing wrong with it. Yes, the term “boobies” may seem ‘juvenile’ to some, but if you think it’s so ‘juvenile’ then why freak out and make a big deal out of it? As a teacher in today’s society I should think these bracelets would be the least of your problems. If I had to undergo the pressures that many teachers face today I wouldn’t give a shit if my students wore a bracelet that had the word ‘boobies’ on it.
GROW. UP.
July 4th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I wwould like to purchase the boobie bracelet for my boutique. I see the bracelets on the loser kids site in 100pcs, but only individual colors, I would like to buy assorted colors by the 100 if possible and at a wholesale price. Do you have a wholesale price for bulk purchases? I have a resale license I can supply.
Thank you. Please feel free to respond to my email address to discuss the possibility of this transaction .
July 9th, 2010 at 6:06 am
Can i get a slim bracelet??
July 9th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I love the bracelets. Teachers at my school nevr had a problem with it and the word boobies gets attention and isn’t that the whole point of this campaign? To raise awareness? I have them in all the colors I can find. And I support breast cancer research 100%
July 11th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
is there any way to get a purple raclet other then online and at the couch tour??
i love these braclets but i always have to keep buying more because my friends didnt know about them and know they do but they always took mine!
July 17th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
were can u get i heart boobie braclets besides online???
July 17th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
I LOVE BOOBIES!!!!These bracelets are to araise awareness to check yourself!Me and my friend Allan are trying to get more than each other!they are a HUGE trend here!I have the pink one,the black one,the white w/ black,the white/pink one,the blue one,the green with white letters,the green with black letters,pink with black letters,purple,black with blue letters,and the RED one!YAYS!!!
I LOVE BOOBIES!!!!
July 19th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Interested in selling the bracelet in my stores at the jersey shore. Send info on wholesale pricing to apessano@gmail.com
July 28th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
admin, i really want one of your “i love boobies” bracelets, but im really scared to ask my parents because they’re really strict and i don’t know how to bring the topic up. please help me because this is a great cause and i want them to understand my thinking. thanks!!
July 29th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Do what you would do with any subject. Present them with all the facts. Give them all the reasons you want to support KAB. And ask yourself some hard questions. Are supporting KAB for the right reasons. What are those reasons? What makes Keep A Breast resonate with you? Be willing to compromise. We have ones that say Check Your Self and Love Your Boobies. Also tees that say Keep A Breast is for Lovers and LOVE. Maybe you can start there when you explain KAB.
Show them the page about our bracelets
http://www.keep-a-breast.org/programs/i-love-boobies
Show them our Youtube page. These are two great ones
http://www.youtube.com/keepabreastvideo#p/a/u/0/lhIIySJYF98
http://www.youtube.com/keepabreastvideo#p/u/8/ZJUAUEX8A2U
Show them our health page, Tell them all the things you’ve learned about breast health via KAB!! And if they say no plan a fundraiser, show them how serious you are. And above all just help them understand KAB.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Hey principals, as a student at a very reputable Catholic high school, i am proud to point out that although we are not allowed to wear ripped jeans, skirts past the knee, or anyhting exposing the shoulders or naval, I am proud to point out that our adminitration “gets it” and isn’t so stupid as to think something increasing awareness for breast cancer is offensive. If an extremely strict Catholic collge prep school can handle this with maturity and an open mind so should you. So principals, faculty, I am asking you to embrace to breasts. They are good things, ask infants. Boys love them, girls love them, even babies, the most innocent love them. So cool down, take a few deep breaths, run out to zumies and but one of these magnificent bracelets. You like boobs too, dont lie.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:24 am
This is directed to terra, dude. Im 16. I have a high probability that i am going to get breast cancer sometime in my twenties. Its family history, on both sides. Im chill with this bracelet. I want to celebrate them while ive got them. Not looking forward to cancer. Sorry what youve been through that must be horrible but you need to take a chill pill dude. Let the good times flowww dude. This is a way for teenagers to get connected. You dont know the point of view of a teenager. But it is making a difference. For example, because of these bracelets i think, that thats why our schools annual relay for life participating party was increased 75% this year. Think about that. And dont blow a gaskit man.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Dear administration,
Would you mind donating a little money to some patients so i can wear your bracelet with pride? I love it and i bought it beacuse i thought my money was going to a cause. If money is the issue increase price by $1.00, a dollar more wont stop kids from buying these bracelets, they simply love them too much. Just an idea for you to ponder.
(i really would rather not look like an ignorant teenager, thanks)
August 1st, 2010 at 1:44 pm
i got my i <3 boobies bracelet from my friend alex……and i love it!!!!
August 1st, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Okay, well there is a lot to say about this discussion. First of all who cares what you wear? You see people with offensive tattoos that don’t support any cause, just because they can. People get obscure things tattooed on theirselves every day. And guess what? There is nothing you can do about it. And guess what? It really doesn’t affect your life unless you know that person. Because honestly, in a week or two or even a month, you won’t even remember seeing that person with the F bomb or a naked woman tattooed on their arm. That’s part of being an American, being able to express yourself. Secondly, to all the people out there that say that younger kids can support the cause in some other way…. we are the LAZY generation. Kids these days are going to pick the easy way out. Most kids would rather spend the four dollars than their weekend volunteering. And that doesn’t matter because either way, they are supporting this non profit organization. And whether their intentions are good or not, they are still doing a good deed by buying a bracelet. If you are going to say they can volunteer or something, then tell that to all of the people that have bought bands instead of volunteering their time. They are taking the easy way out as well. Its no ones business as to what kids buy and don’t buy and why or why they do not buy things. What about the women who abuse their bodies buy walking in public in nothing but a sleezy top and shorts that show a little too much leg? Why pick on the kids that are AT LEAST wearing something obscure for a good cause, intentionally or not. To those of you who say its bad parenting…. as long as its not your kid or your kids friends parents…. BACK OFF. IT DOESNT AFFECT YOU. Teachers, if they are going to wear the wrist bands, don’t take them away, that provokes children. Children like to piss adults off. If anything support it and aware them of what it means to wear that bracelet, and remind them. Anyone else with negative ideas of the bracelets, feel free to respond back, I am all for wearing the bracelets whether they have good intentions or not. There are A LOT worse things that kids could be doing. I.E. making racial jokes, sexist jokes, doing illegal activities. So stop worrying about the small things like the word boobies. Ya it’s going to offend some cancer patients, and to others it will make them proud. You can’t make everyone happy. If it posts this a couple times I apologize. I was having trouble getting it up.
August 2nd, 2010 at 5:23 am
How much exactly of each dollar the bracelets cost goes to RESEARCH? And what organization gets the $?
August 4th, 2010 at 11:27 am
All the funds raised from the bracelet sales go to support Keep A Breast education and awareness programs. These unique campaigns use art and artistic expression to inform young people about methods of prevention, early detection, coping and support. Through these programs Keep A Breast strives to eradicate breast cancer by inspiring young people to adopt lifestyle choices that have long-term health benefits. You can review our programs on our website. We also give out research grants to organizations interested in making a positive and lasting impact on breast cancer prevention.
As for what percentage goes to research versus our programs is a little different. Keep A Breast is different than foundations that are more known as “granting non-profits” which means they raise money mostly to give out for a cure after you have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Keep A Breast believes that Prevention Is The Cure.
Keep A Breast is a prevention, education and support based breast cancer foundation. Many young people believe that breast cancer only can happen to you when you are over 40 – and most non-profits reach out to only this demographic. Keep A Breast is a youth based non profit. We want to educate young about how they can lower their risk.
Only 1 in 8 cases of breast cancer have a hereditary link which means that 7 out of 8 are environmental. Keep A Breast’s main focus is prevention, we aim to inform and educate young people about the dangers of toxic chemicals in our environment and food supply and their link to breast cancer initiation. Its aim is to inspire a focus on prevention as a means to maintain long-term health and well-being. Through art events, educational programs and fundraising efforts, we seek to increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well-being.
Our biggest outreach is The Keep A Breast Traveling Education Booth that has been in full force for 9 years. We will be kicking off this spring touring season full steam ahead! We have several exciting tours and festivals that we will be on site with our Traveling Educational Booth. We will be on the road a total of 241 days, we will set up in 55 different cities, 4 providences, and 10 countries as well as set up at 9 festivals.
KAB has created this portable educational exhibit to teach young people through visual and tactile activities. KAB exhibits the This is My Story video and physical diary and encourages participation. KAB has educational materials such as 6 soft sculpture breasts that simulate the feel of harmful lumps vs fibrocystic lumps. Through the use of these breast models KAB hopes to teach the importance of recognizing different changes in the breast. KAB has created a step-by-step Check Yourself shower card to promote Monthly self checks. The shower card also serves as a reminder to Love Your Boobies and promotes a positive attitude towards breasts. KAB representatives are there to answer questions and provide additional resources. KAB Traveling Education Booth hopes to raise breast cancer awareness through an informative and artistic display of breast casts, information materials and interactive activities.
We have 8 years of success and testimonies from young people all over the world who have met KAB’s “traveling education booth” and learned how to examine their breasts, and have later found a cancerous lump and because they met KAB they found it early, they have a much better survival rate. Nearly three million people visit our site every month and learn healthy tips, ways of support and have a chance to express their inner feelings, make connections with others and learn coping strategies helpful to them and their loved ones.
That being said we do give research grants to organizations or individuals dedicated to putting an end to breast cancer through positive impact. alternative care, environmental effects or cutting edge research. You can read about our grants on keep-a-breast.org/grants
Thank you so much for your questions and I hope this answers everything!
August 4th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Thanks Lindsay, We have a lot of programs that support the newly diagnosed!
August 8th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
i Wouldd Relyy want one im a Girl and i think The are Awesome i dont know where to get them tho. :’( Breast cancer doesnt run in my Family but a couple of ma Parents Friends have breast Cancer,in my Family Regualr Cancer and Dyabyties (i forgot how to spell it)
Im in Middle School & i go to Chs,
But its Sad that people lose their breast because of this :’( and never Feel Comfortable not Even wif Their Husbands or Friends.Ma Grandma is a Cancer Survious and 3 times shes had it their afriad it might come back…..
People Tell me where i can get one so i can Support your Cause even More:)
Cami
August 9th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Lets get real, most of them kids that are buying these bracelets care nor never did care about breast cancer to begain with. They are wearing them because it says “boobies” and most schools are banning them. Somethings I would like to ask “Admin”, about how much money from these bracelets have you donated to breast cancer and what foundation/program is it?
August 9th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
hi my name is corey i go to northeast magnet in wichita ks i love thes bracelets because my mom is now a 6 year breast cancer survivor and i am so proud of her and i am going to show it off i just bought all the colors and bracelet sizes i dare one of the teachers to take it away from me
August 9th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
hey camila you can get them at zuniez, and amazon
August 12th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
I will admit the truth, I did not have THAT much interest in cancer before KAB, and the ILB campaign. (Personally, my main interest is a cure for autism, just because I feel more personal about that)
But just because I haven’t been interested in a cure for cancer as much as other things, I still help others. I help watch over younger children, and I still do volunteer work, mainly over summer.
I think I was so attracted to breast cancer awareness because of ILB. It’s more creative than some other campaigns. And I think prevention IS the cure. Because there is no need for a cure after the cancer if you can prevent the cancer in the first place.
Now I have talked to boys about this bracelet, and some care, others say “I’m wearing this because I do like boobs.” I can defend that statement….
Women have lost their boobs through breast cancer right? Maybe if younger people were reminded to love their boobs, they would care for them and prevent cancer.
And maybe some OLDER people don’t like this campaign because pink ribbons have worked for them. Honestly, it doesnt work for the new generation. As I said, I wasnt that interested in breast cancer awareness until KAB.
To tell you the truth, I even prepared a speech in my head in case my school unallows them.
And if I can’t convince my school to allow them, I will wear the glamour kills or the check yourself bracelet. Because I will support KAB, even if i am unable to support the ILB slogan, though I really believe in it.
August 15th, 2010 at 10:26 am
I need help! my 12 year old son wore a I LOVE BOOBIES bracelet to school (my mom his grandmother has had breast cancer twice) a teacher told him to take it off because it was inapropreiate! he told her no and explained that his grandma had breast cancer twice! (so ya he kept it on). when i picked him up from school he was telling me the story i was mad! i called the school and talked to a lady and told h er that i amnot happy about all of this, she told me why not have your kids not wear them to school i said they would be wearing them and i said i wanted to talk to the prinicipal about all of this. than i get a call from the vice princepail and he tells me he has to talk to the prinicipal! the princepal calls me and tells me that the district is having a big meeting on monday i asked if i could be there and he said no! and that they would be talking about the i love boobies bracelets and shirts! i also told him that we do alot for breast cancer and i feel strongly about it! he told me he would call me on monday to let me know what happens if they can wear them to school! I need help with fighting this! I was hoping that the makers of I LOVE BOOBIES would help me! i hope someone will get back to me and let me know what direction we need to go! I LOVE BOOBIES and will be supporting them with pride!!!!!! p.s. my moms been in remission for 5 years
thank you! Christy Hodgson Southern california please email me at bigjons951@gmail.com thank you so much!
August 16th, 2010 at 1:42 am
With time comes change. Can you as a reader not say that every generation has not used some creative and different avenue to educate and inspire its society? Just because the cosmetic message may seem somewhat immoral doesnt mean that the concrete message isnt. As far as the educators go..I can completely understand their negativity. I mean this campaign was created and directed to young and open minded individuals. Not to the more mature, take everything for face value generation we see today. Simply put to all those educators who see this as immoral,”remove that stick that you have jammed up your backside and atleast consider finding a new profound love for boobies”. And with that I thank this website for educating.
August 19th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
How are these distracting? It’s a fucking bracelet, get over it. Stupid pricipals and teachers, they just don’t get it do they? I got told by a nark to take mine off and i simply said no. I got sent to the office for it, but i refused to take it off because my aunt has breast cancer. They even called my parents and my mom got pissed at the school staff and told me she was proud of me for not taking it off and standing up for the cause. And the word “boobies” is NOT vulger or offensive. Thats like saying the word breast is vulger. It’s for a good cause and it’s soooooo stupid that the schoool won’t let us wear a cirtaint bracelet. When you think about it, the school staff memebers are being immature about it, it’s a bracelet
GROW. UP.
August 21st, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Hello , I want to tell you that I work with teens and the other day two young ladies were wearing the I heart boobies braclets and by the end of the day one of the girls had like 50 bucks for her to buy some for everyone that was working includeing me what you are doing for these kids is awesome and i proudly wear mine. Thank you
August 23rd, 2010 at 4:15 pm
@ Eleanor Rosales
where did you get all those colors!
August 23rd, 2010 at 4:15 pm
oh.. will you ever make a yellow one?
August 24th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Good for everyone who are all about awareness, but the only people I see wearing them are 16-20 something young men who I can guarantee you don’t give a hoot about breast cancer, they just want to somehow feel less of a douche for wearing something that proclaims their love of a female sex organ. I had to google the phrase to even find out what they were for. It’s on the same level as those “I Offer Free Breast Exams” t-shirts. The pink ribbon is enough, good luck getting your slogan on a credit card or even in a WAL-MART. I don’t care how the English language has changed over the years and how many times you hear “F**K” from the 3 year old at the local WAL-MART, “boobies” isn’t professional and will always be associated with snickering juveniles ogling a girls’ chest. I work for a federal agency and per policy I would be sent home if I wore this slogan to work on my shirt, regardless if I had a relative who died from or survived breast cancer. They have the right to set whatever policy they want, as do schools. You all don’t run them, the state does, get over it. Just like the kids who got sent home for wearing American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Where were all of you free speechers when the kids got in trouble for wearing the WWJD bracelets, an equally good cause but something that shouldn’t have been worn by kids who knew nothing about what it meant?
August 26th, 2010 at 6:22 am
the bracelet that says “I love boobies” is just confirming breasts being sexual objects.As a breast cancer survivor myself I find it offensive.I do however like the bracelet that says “save a breast, check yourself”
August 26th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
All these comments are so very interesting. Yes, the awareness for breast cancer is commendable; no argument there.
Yet the disruption in elmentary/middle school often has nothing to do with Breast Cancer Awareness. When the majority of students wearing the wristbands are boys who have only one reason for which to wear them, and it’s not becasue they are sensitive to Breast Awareness, it borders on exploitation.
And in middle school, many girls are just not comfortable with boys being able to express their apparent “love” for breasts (“boobies”) blatantly without recrimination.
There are always two sides to every story…yes, the casue is worthy. Yet, what about early adolescents who have not yet stepped into their changing bodies and who feel uncomfortable in a school setting which allows these bands.
What about their rights?
It’s easy to say “grow up”…or “get that stick out of your $%&”; yet, what about an individual’s right to protect their bodies along with the perception of who they are?
Always another perspective to be considered and respected!
August 29th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I am currently a senior at my high school and student body president. Right now administration at my school are too confiscating all i <3 boobies bracelets, however most students such as myself are extremely upset with administration. Our school newspaper has just released an article about what administration is doing, and during interviews with administration they could find no substantial reason to taking these bracelets. One administration said that if these bracelets were really in support of breast cancer awareness then they would only come in pink, also that these multiple colors are going to cause gang affiliation, and that the breast cancer foundation has no association with any of this and is not supported by it therefore students aren't wearing them for appropriate reasons. By the way, this is the same administrator who a week ago when student leadership put on out neon back to school dance I had all the leadership students take neon fabric pens and write I <3 boobies on their shirts, she stopped us and read our shirts and proceeded to say "oh, how cute, you guys are such rebels, I love your shirts!" Currently I am refusing to take off my bracelet and am being told that if I continue to defy administrations wishes then I will be kicked out of my position as student body president! I find this extremely ignorant of administration, especially since our senior vice president who is in our student leadership class, is going to be going into surgery soon to have her now fourth tumor removed from her breast! I am disappointed in the narrowmindness of administration across the entire country. The more awareness to breast cancer the better, why not have young people come together to build this awareness and prevent it!?
August 29th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
yeah its not fair alot of people at my school have them including me and well we can wear them they have to be inside out ugh!!!! not fair!
August 30th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Michelle we also have bracelets that say Check Your Self – Keep A Breast. You can find them here:
http://www.zumiez.com/catalog/product/view/id/142907/category/1587/