Body Positive

Ask Momma Bare VIDEO Version: I Hate My Naked Body

Loving our bodies is hard! Today in Ask Momma Bare, how can you love yourself more.

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Joni Edelman, photo credit Staci Sheets

Fat And Happy, 12 Ways To Make Peace With Your Body

How much time and energy could you save by loving yourself as you are, right now?

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Public Cervix Announcement

The Wisdom of Annie Sprinkle: Sex and Body Positive Before It Was Cool

Re-imagining the cervix, preserving the earth, facing breast cancer a whole new way…Annie Sprinkle’s wisdom abounds. “Life is a performance art piece,” she said...

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Self Reflection

How I Learned (And Unlearned) To Judge Women’s Bodies

The thing is, we soak in these body-judging lessons from a very young age, before we even know how damaging they are. Some of the messages are implicit, like when we see a fat girl getting made fun of on the playground (or, for many of us, when we are the fat girl getting made fun of on the playground) and learn that being fat is not just wrong, it’s a punishable offense.

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Janeen Singer: Co-founder, Holy Sponge!

menstruation activist. sponge purveyor. cycle supporter.

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International Choreographer Carla Service: Short, Black and Unstoppable

Dance-A-Vision founder and choreographer extraordinaire Carla Service talks body image, the Oakland dance scene and how—surprise, surprise!—So You Think You Can Dance won't feature "plus-size" performers.

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