I believe in taking care of my man. I believe in cooking, cleaning, and being of service in any way I can, personally and professionally. I believe in being a helpmate, not a hindrance. I believe in being an asset and not a liability. I believe in the power of traditional female roles and their

Our nine-year-old, in a French playground, stares at the little boy’s mother. Slim, stylishly dressed, smoking… is it the woman’s cigarette that’s shocking our daughter? Back in Canada she’d rarely seen anybody smoking, and certainly not around children. As we watch, the young woman beckons her

As an Asian woman who is an Indonesian Javanese bred and raised abroad, I have had my difficulties understanding my identity, as it is a mix of everything that I went through in my developmental years. My parents are Indonesians who are both Javanese bred and who spent their time working abroad. I

As I write this, it's been a week since I got my tubes tied. And it's probably the most freeing thing I've ever done.If there's one thing that, as women, we're socialized to be scared of, it's unwanted pregnancies. We literally have TV shows that shame teenagers for getting pregnant. ...Continue

I recently compiled a list of questions I just want to go away, and it was brought to my attention that I didn’t include some of the most frequent ones. That was intentional, as I would hope that these biggies are established as verboten. But let’s go over them anyway, if only for you to share