1. Adam had shitty sex with his new girlfriend on Girls and we’re all trying to decide if it was rape. I for one turned to my husband and said, “Was that a rape scene I just witnessed?” Even though he was cringing while watching, he thought no, but he’s never been in a position, [...]
March 11, 2013
Guest Post by Ronda Kaysen Everyone has a birth story. Mine goes something like this: My mother took me in her arms and said, “Where did you come from?” It was the hair. You see, the people in my family showed up with a lot of hair. Curly, chocolate brown locks that, if not properly [...]
March 10, 2013
As life goes, we are nothing if we don’t have a Facebook presence. Isn’t that just fabulous. (Do you hear my dripping snark?) No, actually, we have a lot of love for the FB, and share quite a bit of info on our Femamom Facebook page. (Can you like us, can you, can you? Do [...]
March 1, 2013
I’ve been asking myself this question since I read this article last night in The Clutch. Kirsten West Savali writes that white feminists not only rushed to slam Seth McFarlane’s We Saw Your Boobs song, but forgot to–or worse, chose not to–come to the rescue of The Onion calling Quvenzhané Wallis a “cunt” in a live [...]
February 28, 2013
Guest Post by Missy Lambert When I was a kid, my hair was straight, blond, thin, soft as a mouse. I wanted curly hair. My mom gave me perms but they never took, or they took to only a few strands. In high school my hair became darker and wavy, but inconsistently wavy: stick-straight [...]
February 21, 2013
You know how you’re watching Cartoon Network with your son, it can be any show at all, and you’re thinking, Gawd, Cartoon Network, can you just try and make a show where girls kick some ass so not everything has to be testosterone and pizza-fueled, Star Wars-crazed and so utterly marketed to boys and only [...]
February 19, 2013
You don’t realize that your labia will be waxed when you get a Brazilian. Of course you understand that this is the inevitable. That your entire vagina will be naked, except for that little landing strip left of pubic hair. But as a Brazilian virgin, I couldn’t possibly imagine what the experience is like until [...]
February 14, 2013
Guest Post By Jane Roper Three months after my five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, I cut off my hair. It’s not what you think; I wasn’t shaving it in solidarity with her hair loss. In fact, she didn’t start losing her hair in earnest until a couple months later. And while I did donate [...]
February 12, 2013
Guest Post By Nicole Blades He asked if he could touch it. I obliged. After all, he was the boy. The one all the girls chased during recess. The one to whom we sent silly notes with mangled letters and shapes. He was The Boy, and he asked if he could touch my hair. It [...]
February 7, 2013
Guest Post by Hester Kaplan When I was in my teens, my mother told me, “No man will want to marry you because you have kinky pubic hair.” (She claims she never said this, but could I make it up?) I had a head of curly, dense dark hair, prone to frizz and uncontrollability, so [...]
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