Joni Edelman

As a stay-at-home mom, I've made plenty of sacrifices. Where are my accolades?

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

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

I guess the point of a spiritual awakening is just that; if you were already awake, you wouldn’t need a moment that was self-defining. You’d already be defined.

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

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.

If you decide pit or leg hair isn't a big deal, then bam! It's not a big deal.

1. All vaginas are good vaginas.

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

My cocktail is wrong. It’s a gin and tonic with only gin. It’s a martini with 10 olives. And I can’t stand the sun. Not today. Not this month.