This is a response to the callout from Steph at The Witch Within for "bloggers with boobs" to get ready for the Fifth Annual Blogger Boobie-Thon for Breast Cancer. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Boobie-Thon will start accepting pledges on October 1st to raise money for the prestigious Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

They're looking for donations of another nature now! As witches who are accustomed to celebrating the goddess within, why not celebrate the goddess without for a good cause?

Boobie-Thon started as a joke among blogger girlfriends and a grassroots effort to buy a plane ticket so that one of them wouldn't have to spend Thanksgiving alone. It has since become a fundraiser for breast cancer that in its first four years has raised over $26,000.

In the spirit of blog sisterhood that launched Boobie-Thon, each year the first $359 raised — the price of the original plane ticket — is earmarked for a "bloggers helping bloggers" charity. This year, that charity will be Children's Hospital Boston. The remaining funds go directly to Komen.

In response to criticism they've received about the method of their fundraising, the founders of the event say that Boobie-Thon is:

Basically a celebration of boobies in order to save them...they're a common bond we all share in one form or another. We mean no harm to those who have had their lives and bodies permanently altered by the horrors of breast cancer — and in fact, we encourage survivors to submit their photos in order to remind everyone just why we're here in the first place!

If you'd like to "donate" a photo, here are Boobie-Thon's submission guidelines, including a link for uploading your photo. For ideas and inspiration, check out the 2005 photos. (These are boobies. We're all adults here. Only you know if this is work safe for you or not!)

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 8:53 AM