As many of you loyal and wonderful everybodysgood.com readers hopefully know, March is LGBT Health Month.

Health Month is one of our best opportunities each year to raise awareness, and create meaningful dialogue about many of the health issues that we often face as a community... as well as helping one another deal more creatively and productively with homophobia, transphobia, & heterosexism, and all the ways they impact our health and well-being on a daily basis, as individuals and as a whole community.

This year we've packed over 30 events into Health Month... (read more about them here) and so far they've been really well-attended and well-received. And there are still some really great events coming up and most events are free... check out the full listing because there's something awesome for everybody and you don't want to miss out!

Which brings me to one of the more pressing health issues we often talk about, and have written frequently about on this site, primarily regarding queer women, transmen and other transmasculine folks: breast health.

One in EIGHT women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, which is a general statistic and astoundingly high to begin with. There is also evidence suggesting that for a variety of reasons, lesbian, bisexual and queer women, and some transmen, are TWICE as likely to develop breast cancer during their lifetime than straight women are... and are actually less likely or able to get regular age-appropriate (LGBT affirming) preventive screenings and care.

Breasts are an important part of our bodies... whether we love them, hate them, or are indifferent... and breast health encompasses more than just the physical aspect of health.

For many of us they are an important part of our reproductive anatomy... for many they are an important part of our sexual anatomy, and for many of us, regardless of who we are or what our relationship to our breasts is, they can be a significant source of body image concerns for a variety of reasons.

Join us this year for our 2nd Annual "Love Your Boobs!" Breastcasting Event at the Flying Squirrel Community Space (details below) where we'll spend some quality time making awesome art in a body-positive, self-affirming environment while learning the basics of breast health, and caring for our bodies.

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