Just The Way We Are
I loved playing Barbie with my sister. My sister’s Barbie was blonde and had a “bubble-cut” hair style. My Barbie was blonde as well, with longer hair. We thought she was beautiful. We dreamed of being her. We had all the Barbie houses, Barbie cars, and all the Barbie clothes my mother would buy for us. [...]
By: Holly M. Thatcher, MD Is it healthier to be pleasantly plump? Or should you skip all desserts and work out twice a day to be a ‘lean-iac’? No sooner did many of us make resolutions to exercise more, eat less, and either lose weight or vow to at least not gain weight in the [...]
Girl Body Pride began with the simple and complex desire to do what I can for myself and allow my daughter to grow into the woman she is meant to become. I can kiss away the boo boos now. I can snuggle her to sleep because she still wants me to and I’ll miss [...]
The first welfare office I ever stepped in was in this one-story dark brown office building that was on the curve of a road that made it seem even more remote than it was. It was unmarked and so drab looking that it made me wonder if, in brighter daylight, it would somehow look more [...]
I’m exhausted, going through a pretty major depression I’m still working on pulling myself out of, and should have been asleep two hours ago, but I’m here sharing words instead because they are important. Clorox is sponsoring the Suena sin Limites (Dream Without Limits) Scholarship Program encouraging Latina teens and moms to dream big [...]
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