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Owning Our Erotic Capital

Tinamarie Bernard, January 8, 2013

The signs are unmistakable. Women are owning sexuality in powerful and disquieting ways. Is the world ready for the future of femininity and feminism?

Years ago, I posted a playful, heart-in-cheek article about the emerging post-feminist femme fatales (PFF) on a staunchly feminist website. A PFF, I wrote, was both an “accomplished woman in all political, social, environmental and economic arenas,” and an “enchantress.” Confident and graceful, funny and committed to social justice, she wore lingerie, laughed at her whim, ate her cake and shared it, too, without counting calories or flaws.

Hillary Clinton Erased From Historic White House Photo

Lissa Rankin, May 9, 2011

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Women have been erased from history for millennia. Countless courageous events led by women have gone unwritten or rewritten in the history books. Yet, in the age of feminism in modern times, we assume this doesn’t happen anymore, right?

Wrong.

According to CNN, the uber-Orthodox Jewish publication Di Tzeitung, a Hasidic newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York, whited out Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason, director of counterterrorism from the now iconic “Situation Room Photo” take while President Obama monitored the raid on bin Laden’s compound.

Just like that. Zip. Gone. The two women present no longer exist with a swipe of Photoshop.

Because Women Are Friggin’ Powerful

Lissa Rankin, February 21, 2011

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As many of you know, I’ve been suffering through a mongo identity crisis, both personally and professionally. I’ve been grasping for space, fussing over taglines, resisting the guidance that tells me to pick a “niche,” and generally making myself crazy because I know what I’m doing is incredibly valuable, and yet I don’t know how to explain it in a sound byte.

My Vagina: The Portal to Self-Discovery

Jessie Fano, May 25, 2010

Artwork by Heidi Ryan Evans

Dear Pinkies, Please welcome an anonymous Pinkie who has written a gorgeous and powerful story about lessons she's learned from Yoni. Please hold loving space for her as she tells her powerful truth.

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I didn't want my vagina to be my portal to self discovery, but as hard as I fought it - it was. Crap.

The Power of Pussy: My First Weekend at Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts

Lissa Rankin, March 24, 2010

Hiya Pinkies. Many of you met Regena Thomashauer (aka Mama Gena) a while back when I wrote about her after interviewing her for my upcoming book What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend (St. Martin’s Press, Sept 2010). Now, I’m blessed to be able to experience Mama Gena in the flesh (and I’m talking about some juicy Goddess flesh here!) I just finished the first of four rounds of becoming a Sister Goddess at Mama Gena’s School of the Womanly Arts, and I’m so excited to share this journey with all you Pinkies.

Owning Pleasure: Preparing to Attend Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts

Lissa Rankin, March 15, 2010

Hiya Pinkies!

This weekend I am heading to New York City for the first weekend of the Mastery Program at Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts. You Pinkies may remember Mama Gena from the interview I did with her a few months ago for my book, What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend (St. Martin’s Press, October 2010). This is a Pinkie who has redefined (or, more accurately, unearthed) the truth of what it is to be a woman, and to Own Pleasure.