Abstract
While men with breast cancer make up a relatively small percentage of breast cancer cases, their experiences of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship are rarely discussed in part because the breast cancer movement in its pink ribbon discourse perpetuates narrow binary gender constructions which position femininity as central to breast cancer. In feminist scholarship, much has been said about women's breasts as sexualised, objectified, fetishised, and regulated within structures of heteropatriarchy. Just as women's breast cancer narratives reveal much about women's relationships to breasts and structures of gender, heteronormativity, race, and normate bodies, likewise men's breast cancer narratives and illness experiences do as well. Using queer feminist analysis and disability frameworks, I analyse men's survivor stories and representation posted on six advocacy organisations' websites. This paper adds to the analysis of heteromasculinity found in men's breast cancer experiences by focusing on the queer contexts of disability found in male breast cancer discourse. This paper seeks to disrupt the feminisation of breast cancer, and to argue that male breast cancer warrants attention not because it is a common experience but rather because it gives insight into understandings of gender, the body, and disability.