Catherine Gigante-Brown
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Catherine Gigante-Brown Articles
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.
Read...TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.
Read...I’m boycotting you until you start recognizing breast cancer survivors like me by carrying mastectomy bras.
Read..." Sure enough, the doorbell rang one early June day and there she was: curvy, seductive body, smooth black skin, bright blue eyes."
Read...I dreaded putting him back on Concerta in the fall but I knew I had to. Or did I?
Read...BCBs are loud and proud and refuse to go down easy. And quietly. We have things to say. We have things to teach. We still have life to live. And damn it, we are and we will. With one breast. With no breasts. With reconstruction surgery.
Read...A new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on mammograms ensures more women will die of breast cancer.
Read...At the New York City release party for Dayna Kurtz’ latest, Rise and Fall, my friend Nadia leaned over to me and whispered, “Why the fuck
Read...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.
Read...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.
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