Catherine Gigante-Brown

The Daily News quoted one painted lady as saying, “People come up to us sometimes and say what we do is disgusting,” she said. “But what is disgusting about the female body? They shield their kids sometimes, and I think, ‘Kids come from the female body.’”

Mindel and Maria were young teenagers when the horrors occurred—but they remembered the tiniest details with crystal-clear intensity.

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

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

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

Re-imagining the cervix, preserving the earth, facing breast cancer a whole new way…Annie Sprinkle’s wisdom abounds. “Life is a performance art piece,” she said...

8. Educate, don’t fixate.

I realized my father was from a generation that never said those three little words. He was saying he loved me without them. But I didn't realize it then.

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

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.