Catherine Gigante-Brown

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.

I immediately developed a hot-and-heavy girlcrush on the wild, wacky, brash, candid, feminist, rubber-faced comedian—and you should too.

After I got over the initial devastation, I pulled myself up by my big-girl panties and got on with it. Chemo was no picnic—but it was do-able.

Food can be more than nourishing; it can be healing.

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

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.

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

I’m a firm believer that Tiny Kindnesses can change the world, one sweet, loving gesture at a time.

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.