Role Reboot

I’m A 43-Year-Old Mom And I Posed Nude. Here’s Why And What I Learned

I want to celebrate my beauty and my body and my whole self as I am, not as I wish I were. When my memoir Stripping Down was published in 2012, I thought I would be done with needing to talk about my risqué younger life, which included stripping and nude modeling. I would be […]

A Nude Woman Isn’t Always ‘Objectifying Herself’

Since Eve first realized she was naked and scrambled to cover her shame with fig leaves, feminists have been divided over the question of how to return dignity and humanity to the female body. It was apparently a fraught decision for the avid bell hooks reader, but after a bit of back and forth the […]