Catherine Gigante-Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My husband and I agreed: raising a child with an independent spirit who made decisions for himself was a good thing.

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

sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

In the photograph, my great-grandmother, Margarita Cirigliano, is sitting at a small table on the front porch of the family home in Borough Park, Brooklyn.