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What a Recent Health Scare Taught Me About Natural Healing
An abnormal pap smear leads to an exploration of how and where we find our healing.
How Trying to Assimilate Helped Me Find My Latina Identity
I had struggled with my Latina identity before I even understood why. But all my attempts at assimilation led me back to it more strongly.
The Rise of Womenpreneurs
Women-led businesses and womenpreneurs are forging a powerful path in America’s economic growth.
Indie Rock Band Chastity Belt on Vulnerability, Friendship and Their New Album
Discovering the band Chastity Belt was like finding a bunch of old journals I’d forgotten I had written.
How Design is Enabling Social Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East
Design is not just about pretty lights and wallpaper, it is an enabler of social change.
What Lies Beneath Cate Blanchett’s Performance in ‘Manifesto’
Considering Cate Blanchett’s breadth of work, she could be a character actor masquerading as a leading lady.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
As filmmaker Alexandra Dean deftly examines in her documentary “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,” the combination of looks and intelligence can be devastating.
The Problem With Fangirl Shaming
Dismissing fangirls as silly groupies is not only disrespectful, it’s also toxic.
How I Turned My Love of Storytelling Into a Business
Feminist Wednesday blogger Erin Bagwell turns her passion for sharing women’s stories into film. See “Dream, Girl,” currently screening across the country and recently selected by Oprah to be part of her SuperSoul 100 roundup.
The Life Lessons I Learned from Stripping
What is it about the word stripper? It’s an innocuous word with a sour aftertaste, one that has the power to incite threat and feelings of inadequacy to women everywhere.
Catherine Hernandez Is a Well-Spring of Body Wisdom
Each of us has one body to travel through this world in and, unfortunately, many of us have not been taught to love these bodies. Catherine Hernandez feels that we can learn to love our bodies just as they are and that 2017 is a great time to start.
Coco Dolle’s Performance Collective Legacy Fatale
New York artist Coco Dolle found her alter-ego and the reference point from which to build her own iconography for her performance art collective, Legacy Fatale, re-contextualizing the historical Amazon as the champion of her vision of an egalitarian and fe
How Chronic Lyme Disease Changed My Life
After numerous doctors confirmed that I did not have Lyme disease, one doctor finally told me I did. I cried of happiness.
At Your Cervix: Making Pelvic Exams Ethical, Consensual, & Pain-Free
At Your Cervix is a documentary exposing the unethical ways of teaching pelvic exams to medical students to make them respectful & pain-free.
How I Learned the Study of Light
I came to Oaxaca to study light and left with a new appreciation of not only how light dictates art, but how it shapes our day to day.