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Patty Berne's Sins Invalid: Sex, art and disability

Patty Berne reveals incidences in her life that led her to start a performance group that examines sexuality and disability.

Fat Burlesque

Big women are strutting their stuff as dancers in burlesque troupes. But it's not just about entertainment. These ladies are confronting weight discrimination and challenging people's perceptions of beauty norms.

New Beauty, Down Under

So you've heard of the Brazilian bikini wax, but you're too scared to try it? Get the inside scoop on what the process is really like with expert waxer Holly Heysek.

Meow!

Cameras flashed as trans models strutted their stuff at San Francisco's SomArts for Catwalk '08. The annual modeling contest aimed to celebrate TG identity through fashion and art, according to the producer Nicky Calma. Judging from the enthusiastic crowd, it succeeded. Proceeds from the event went to the API Wellness Center.

Getting It On . . . with Harvard's H Bomb founder

America's most prominent university, Harvard College, just released its latest issue of H Bomb. Ivy leaguers have posed nude for the student run magazine. But founder Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg insists it's not about porn. Hear why.

The Beauty of Gray

Last month at a lunch in a restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I had an unusual experience. I, and the three other women with whom I was eating, became the focus of attention from strangers. As we were ushered to our table, every head in the place turned. There was nothing particularly unique about us—we ranged in age from

Sins Invalid

Patty Berne talks about sex, love, and Sins Invalid, a performance that aims to expand perceptions of beauty and eroticism, while stripping taboos off of sexuality and disability.

Plastic Surgery and the New Standard, Unnatural Beauty

Sixteen was a particularly hard year for me. And not because I was still almost five feet tall, stuck in an Elita, my mouth paying eerie homage to a small cityscape during the industrial revolution. It was because sixteen was the year my mother’s daily suggestion to remove the make-up off my moustache, the unkind effect of stale

'Reading' the Print Media

Perfect skin . . . just everything like, you have to have every certain like wicked feature. . . . you have to be smart and have money, but yet they don’t want you to have a job because then you might be making more money than them, like it’s all very confusing.”—reaction from a young woman after reading an article in

Don't Look at Me

What's the link between sexual abuse and weight?

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