Philippa Hetherington

Philippa Hetherington was lecturer in modern Eurasian history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, and an activist with the breast cancer advocacy group METUPUK.

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Rubens painting Venus and Cupid reimagined with Venus on the left gazing in a mirror at her mastectomized breast. A cherub like Cupid to the right holds the mirror

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Illness and disease

More than pink

The culture around breast cancer is full of positivity and femininity. But it comes at the expense of the marginalised

Philippa Hetherington