Catherine Gigante-Brown

I asked a handful of women: why are people so scared of ladyparts?

Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions wasn't your typical cutesie baby fare. It was raw, real—and unabashedly funny.

Although America’s “lying in period” fell by the wayside in the 19th century with the disappearance of the frontier, it’s alive and well today in many cultures globally. Seclusion traditions where both mother and child recover and bond are still the norm in many cultures worldwide.

TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.

"I was afraid this thing was going to do me in. But I took a deep breath and decided very early on that I would face cancer on my own terms."

To the tattoo artist, I was a flesh canvas that she could transform into something beautiful.

Re-imagining the cervix, preserving the earth, facing breast cancer a whole new way…Annie Sprinkle’s wisdom abounds. “Life is a performance art piece,” she said...

All bets were off after 9/11. In a twisted way, it proved to me that worry was fruitless. No one ever saw the terrorist attacks coming.

Makeup and I have always had a love/hate relationship: I love it; it hates me.

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.