Just The Way We Are
Girl Body Pride is coming up on a birthday. To celebrate, we are taking a moment to showcase our favorite submissions from guest writers and contributions from our regular team. Do you have a favorite you’d like to see here? Send me an email at . Leslie Marinelli published Evicting the Mean Girls from My […]
About four years ago I let one of my stepsisters talk me into “going platinum.” She said being a blonde would make me look and feel hot, young, and stylish. I was in a bit of a funk at the time and needed a change. I thought a new ‘do might just do […]
It is the email subject line that stops my heart like clockwork every year: “Pool Opens This Weekend.” Wasn’t it just New Year’s Day two minutes ago? Remember New Year’s? That day nearly half a year earlier when we swore we’d be more prepared for things like Tax day, Teacher Appreciation Week, and bathing suit […]
I live in the Southern United States of America, also known as The Bible Belt. There are certain things I can count on here: mosquitoes, iced tea sweet enough to make my teeth throb, and a perpetual debate about Creationism versus Evolution. Being an educated woman with a natural fondness for math, science, […]
I am in a place I have wanted to be for so very long and I am here because of the power of joining my voice with that of other like-minded women with something to say and a need to be heard. I am in this place and I am grateful. And I simply […]
I’ve seen my name published in the bylines of the hundreds of newspaper articles I wrote before giving up the Dream That Was Supposed to Pay the Bills. That was the plan, you know. The paycheck was supposed to fund the Dream That Included Me and a Book with My Words. Funny thing, that dream. […]
I have a witch mole. It is a birthmark on my cheek that sticks out like someone glued the tip of a skin-colored raisin to my face. When I was a little girl, it was just a dark, slightly raised “beauty mark” like Natalie Portman’s signature mole. But now that I’m 42 and […]
I had a reader tell me that reading the words on Girl Body Pride was much like having her mind read. She used the words “inside of my brain” and “weird” and “wonderful” and I just nodded because I understand. The feeling of being so exposed and the relief and absolute mindfuck that comes with […]
I posted photos of myself in a bathing suit on my blog the other day. Silly photos. Photos of me cutting it up with my kids at the beach. I just wanted to share a story about how making my kids laugh is one of my favorite things. What happened instead was barroom brawl […]
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