Halloween or “Whore”-loween?

Hawkins Halloween 2006(1)

Halloween is not one of my favorite holidays. Besides not growing up going out trick-or-treating, I don’t understand the appeal of dressing up and going door to door begging for candy. The first time I went out trick-or-treating, I was was 16 and went as a cheerleader or something with an easy-to-cobble-together “costume”. In general [...]

The Problem of Loving My Body and Body As Object

Photo Credit: Elan "Schmutzie" Morgan

Love it or hate it, Elan Morgan ponders self-acceptance, our bodies, and why there isn’t really an answer.   I think about beauty and self-acceptance and love, and I think about how our culture, in an effort to beat back the ocean of self-loathing that women have been drowning in for so long, offers up [...]