Catherine Gigante-Brown

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

The Ultimate Counter Culture Diva

The office cubicle is indeed a strange bird. Here's how to survive life in a box without driving you—or your office mates—crazy.

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

Once upon a time, it was easier to keep track of gender. Today, not so much — the lines are blurred. For many, gender’s not so much about questioning your own identity as it is about questioning the very nature of identity.

Although I tried to convince myself that I wasn't racist, if the truth were told, I didn't like Muslims. Especially after 9/11.

The hell with his elaborate metaphors and rhetorical phrases. Iambic pentameter is cruel and unusual punishment.

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

I fumbled with my lace bra, hoping my silicone form wouldn't fall out from the left cup. I wasn't exactly ready . . . yet I was.

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.