Joni Edelman

My decision to bed-share with my children despite potential SIDS risks has less to do with studies, and more to do with instinct.

I am tired of taking medication. I am tired of relying on the manufactured versions of the chemicals and hormones my body could — should? — make for itself.

Now that I've embarked upon the decade I once considered "old," there are a few things I'd like my 20 (and 30) year-old self to know.

No, Bill Cosby isn't my dad. But he was like one to me growing up.

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.

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

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.

"Food isn't the enemy –– calling it the enemy is the enemy."

91% of women report dissatisfaction with their body. Ninety-one. I know you know math—that’s 9/10 of women.

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.