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The Table There’s a sensitivity that I carry for women. I am a woman and my vagina poses plenty of stresses for me every day. It quite literally is the source of (coughs) my greatest pleasures and equally, my greatest anxieties. August begins and woman mode for me is set on 110%. I’m walking into the office, chanting Worldwide woman by Beyonce, extra cocky when people ask me how I am. My response “I’m a woman. Are you kidding me, I’m resourceful thanks and you?” The cockiness of this month for me comes from the knowing that all things femme – ALL things femme – are so sexy and important and beautiful and needed. And in the spirit of that knowing, I geared up...

I had a one on one with my daughter’s friend who said to me “Aunty Mbalz, sometimes I wish my mother was like you, outspoken and free.”  I was not hearing that for the first time and every time I hear such utterances I always open up because I’m hoping our kids become the mothers we weren’t taught to be. I would have never been seen this way twenty years ago. I was a different person and ten years after that, a totally different woman. What people experience is a process of great and not so great decisions over the years. I’ve changed so much it feels like I may have started the journey over completely. As a child, I was very detached....