Spending, Saving, Asking, Making: Let’s Talk About Cents, Baby
Your age, your weight, and your bank account. Three things based on numbers. Three things that are highly personal. And three things that you’re never, ever supposed to talk about. So is it that ludicrous to suggest that the way we view one…is the way we...
Three Inches Of Sideboob: On Preemptive Body-Shaming, The Phantom Gaze, And “A Little Too Much”
I opened the photo file and gasped. My hand rested on my chest, keeping my deep-V sweater in place on what I remembered was an unusually chilly spring day. It had misted in Venice that weekend – a not-quite-drizzle not-quite-overcast-fog that, of course, sent...
The WANT Women: Jessie Kahnweiler On Being Loud, Honest, And Here
To those of us who have struggled with eating disorders, disordered tendencies, whatever you want to call them – many times the portrayal of eating disorders on tv and in film can hit closer to fiction than reality. They’re shown as what people think...
Updos And Down Dogs: On Meeting Yourself.
“I can’t do that kind of yoga. It’s too slow.” She stared at me with an ice sheet over her eyes, a look that darted back and forth and when it hit me it seared right through and past me. If you do yoga every day, or every week, how is this kind...
Ghost Worries.
I am high-strung. It’s not that I’m not easygoing or that I’m quick to argue – not in the least. My high-strungness manifests in waves, or rather, in jolting earthquakes that eventually rumble themselves out. My high-strungness comes in the...
