Catherine Gigante-Brown

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

A midtown Manhattan studio was recently the site of liberation-both on and offscreen-when Shenshean

A new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on mammograms ensures more women will die of breast cancer.

What Stephen didn’t know –– what no one knew –– was how weak my knees grew when I pushed through the swinging doors of the ICU.

Were you going to run into that cute guy John Williams on the way home? Would you see Anne Marie by the lockers and sort out what to do for the weekend? It was hit-or-miss, and that was the beauty of it. The breath-holding chance of it all. Now, our kids’ friends are as close as a keyboard stroke away. It’s too easy.

The santero sent us off with a shopping list of ite

Alas, I am the lone female in a house full of men. Only two men, but they take up a lot of space.

I was 21 –– a Catholic, heterosexual college student, living at home in Brooklyn and still trying to discover who I was. At the crossroads of her life, Lorde knew exactly who she was. She was waging a war against cancer and sharing an old house in Staten Island with her kids and partner. But maybe we weren’t so different after all.

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.

"Remember, this isn’t just happening to you, it’s happening to moms everywhere. It’s not your fault — "