By Kelly Jasper
Staff writer/The Augusta Chronicle
October 2, 2009
AUGUSTA – When a friend in Tonia Welsh’s office started selling shirts in the name of breast cancer awareness, Mrs. Welsh had to have one.
It had a pink ribbon, but the shirt also had a slogan that said so much more: “Fight like a girl.”
“It caught my attention,” said Mrs. Welsh, the office manager at Phoenix Printing in Augusta. She was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, at age 37.
The phrase, while attention-getting, is one of the more demure rallying cries for breast cancer survivors and advocates.
Others range from cheeky (“save the ta-tas”), to brazen (“save a life, grope your wife”).
“You see them everywhere,” said Lisa Bryant, a breast cancer survivor and the American Cancer Society’s community manager in Augusta. “Speaking as a woman who has had breast cancer, there are a lot of different ways to talk about awareness.”