Catherine Gigante-Brown

“It’s almost as though this niche was patiently waiting for us to find it.”

If the odds of getting cancer are like Powerball, why couldn't I be a scratch-off millionaire?

Wrinkles or lifelines? Chunky or curvaceous? The choice is yours.

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

Why do we venerate individuality in adults but condemn it in children?

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

Candida Royalle pretty much invented couples erotica. She made it socially-acceptable. Respectable. The women in her films looked like real women and had real, comfortable female bodies. And her movies actually had stories. Good stories. She hired her friends—adult legends like Annie Sprinkle, Veronicas Hart and Vera, and Gloria Leonard — to create Femme films too.

Being a little bit chubby is better than being a lot dead.

Instead of categorizing people as different colors, I proposed we might begin to think of each other as Earthtones—because our skin colors are based on hues from the earth. Just as the planet is made up of a myriad of shades, it’s still one cohesive entity. We can be thought of as one entity also.

herbalist. shiatsu practitioner. healer.