Just The Way We Are
by Lasara Firefox Allen Every year on and around my birthday, I take inventory. Whether I want to or not, this happens. So I’ve learned to roll with it. And this year, here’s what inventory has yielded: Limit and defeat are not synonyms. As a writer, maybe you’d think I would have figured that one [...]
I used to be the girl who bitched about the skinny ones at the gym. How dare they mock me and my curvy-self trying oh-so-hard just to maintain? Why are they even here? I never asked the question out loud. But I’d usually answer it at home with a self-indulgent pity party for one complete [...]
by Jenn Marshall The holidays are coming up and for me this time of year is always bittersweet. The end of October marks the anniversary of my postpartum psychosis experience. Leaves changing to shades of yellow, orange and red, combined with the smell of real wood-burning fireplaces in our neighborhood on a chilly night [...]
Are you ready to #BeBrave? The headlines are filled with stories about feelings of hopelessness. At first glance, the world looks like a pretty depressing place, but if you look just long enough…you see the glimmers of light shining through. There are people doing good things; people who are inspiring others to see themselves [...]
by Ariel Gore When I called my mother over a crackling international phone line to tell her I was pregnant at 19, she gasped: “My god, Tiniest, you’re too young.” She was silent, then she kind of moaned. “The teenage skin isn’t elastic enough to recover from the trauma of pregnancy. You’ll have horrendous stretch [...]
I don’t remember not knowing that my mother weighed 85 pounds when she got pregnant with me. Or that she was a senior in high school. Or that she got married right after graduation and had me instead of letting her parents talk her into an abortion. I don’t remember not thinking I was [...]
Feminists, I venture to say, approach marriage with less blinders on than most women. At least this feminist woman did/does. I have high expectations of the men around me: remain yourselves, because I love you for yourselves. But at the same time, we all have to remain vigilant that gender roles and mundane societal expectations [...]
by Tiffiney Lozano This article, Snow Brains struck a nerve with me, as my husband and the father of my children is an extreme athlete. I too, am a born risk taker. Now that I’m a mother to two amazing humans however, my sense of mortality is real and at times completely overwhelming. But if there [...]
By Christine MacDonald Former stripper and magical word wrangler Christine MacDonald is currently penning her memoir, Pour Some Sugar on Me: Tales of an Ex-Stripper and we at Girl Body Pride cannot wait to get our paws on it. Read on for Christine’s take on Other People’s Opinions and an excerpt from her book. You’re [...]
So Sunday is/was the day we females are supposed to go without a bra for the day out of some publicity campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness . I realize we’ve known for quite awhile that underwire bras can contribute to breast cancer–many of us have made the switch, but a piece of metal close to one’s [...]
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