Looking at the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog makes me want to buy their clothes, but I'm too exhausted from self-abuse.

As long as pretty rules, ugly will be the choice of fashionable dissidents.

I want my son to be comfortable with his feminine side. Now, if only I could get comfortable with strangers staring

From Elizabeth Taylor to Cleopatra, women who wear it make history. Was I ready to be one of them?

As a Native girl, I learned the difference between spirituality and dogma when we mourned my aunt and uncle

"I was a thirty-something dyke watching this sweet ass slide its way down the hall." An excerpt from a collection of short stories.

As a closeted lesbian, I cringed with every gift. For years, it felt like she was taking a scalpel to my identity

I was super excited about "Barbie" until I realized I would have to explain their ideas of beauty to my child

When you find yourself having a Bad-Hair Life, what do you do? You get yourself a new one.

NASA's last flight marks the end of an era, but for space geeks like me, it's a different kind of loss

Sometimes the snakes, the bong hits and cancer are all visible through the lens of one place in one season.

The more affluent control the narrative so being "woke" will be hot until the rest of black America gets a voice

I wish I could bottle the magic in a pair of Tweety Bird underpants.

Though nothing topped Lady Gaga's 2010 meat dress, there were several memorable outfits

For a Western woman, waiting on a rainy day at a matatu stand illuminates some inescapable truths.