Loves anything and everything that surrounds fashion, poetry, and lifestyle. She sees life as a recipe, where the ingredients are yours to choose and the flavour depends on how you blend them. Her one ...

Loves anything and everything that surrounds fashion, poetry, and lifestyle. She sees life as a recipe, where the ingredients are yours to choose and the flavour depends on how you blend them. Her one ...

Despite cultural taboos, women have been getting tattoos for centuries. In ancient Egypt, women got tattoos as a form of beauty and as a status symbol. Permanent ink was seen for the first time in the ...

Black and Blue, a female-owned tattoo shop on Guerrero near 16th Street. Photo by Leslie Nguyen-Okwu. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find ...

A mastectomy is a life-altering surgery for many women. It’s a double-edged sword, really, because the surgical removal of breast tissue saves lives, but it can also cause women to question their ...

Circuses and sideshows may not seem like obvious places to look for stories of female empowerment, but experts say the performers who appeared in such acts played a surprising and important role in ...

Even before her mastectomy, Inga Duncan Thornell knew she didn’t want to have her breasts reconstructed. She didn’t want to go through more surgery and didn’t like the idea of implants. So when her ...