Joni Edelman

Can we just take a pause to consider all of the total fucking bullshit to which we subject ourselves?

Silly me, I thought the darn thing took care of itself. Little did I know I was sorely mistaken and had a vagina complex.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

I just listened to my four and six year-old children (one boy, one girl) have a lengthy bathtime conversation about babies, growing up, m

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

Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.

It's #STDAwareness week here at Ravishly. We're kicking it off with this handy chart!

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

They will 

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