Catherine Gigante-Brown

herbalist. shiatsu practitioner. healer.

"Remember, this isn’t just happening to you, it’s happening to moms everywhere. It’s not your fault — "

After I got over the initial devastation, I pulled myself up by my big-girl panties and got on with it. Chemo was no picnic—but it was do-able.

From New York to LA, this lady knows a good story.

"Sometimes David wore his hair spiked like a cockscomb. Others, he wore it feathery like a baby chick. He wore his Mohawk to summer camp (exchanging encouraging head chucks with another older camper who sported one, too) and even to Vacation Bible School—no judgment there."

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.

Candida Royalle pretty much invented couples erotica. She made it socially-acceptable. Respectable. The women in her films looked like real women and had real, comfortable female bodies. And her movies actually had stories. Good stories. She hired her friends—adult legends like Annie Sprinkle, Veronicas Hart and Vera, and Gloria Leonard — to create Femme films too.

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.