Joni Edelman

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"She has created an important space on the internet and in the real world, a space that women and girls are free to take up however they please."

As long as I can remember having paid attention to the media, I can remember a woman's weight—or body in general—being a news story.

The Interent is ugly sometimes. And raising kids using it doesn't always make it easier.

Body politics activist. Photographer. Chronic quoter of Monty Python. Unapologetic fat chick.

I was told that feminism is man hate. That abortion is murder. And then I thought, "What am I doing here?"

My husband and I recently traveled together without our kids for the first time . . . in a while. And it was a brand-new ball game.

I want my kids to have an understanding of the truth of sex, the ins, the outs, the details no one wants to ask anyone—least of all their mom.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.