Catherine Gigante-Brown

herbalist. shiatsu practitioner. healer.

The santero sent us off with a shopping list of ite

8. Educate, don’t fixate.

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sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

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

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

Having someone steal my cancer history and co-opt it for their first-person Facebook blog is unbelievably violating. Somehow, it feels almost as invasive as my mastectomy.

Why, when I'm cool with being a salt-and-pepper chick, does it so clearly unnerve others?

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