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Here is an article I wrote for the latest issue of Missy/Ink Magazine which is available across Canada at Chapters Indigo!! It's called... Artistic Vanity Primarily associated with and commercially directed toward women, fashion and makeup artistry are of very few mediums in which women are granted more freedom than men. So it is not surprising that fashion and makeup are also treated as culturally unimportant or shallow. Society has coded these types of expression as distinct from other art; calling us cultured if we attend art galleries and shallow if we read a fashion magazine. This hardly seems coincidental; dismissing fashion as vain prevents it from ever gaining the same cultural respect as other expressive outlets. But the way my body is cloaked and my face is painted is art. Art is creative, it is political, and its influence is far-reaching and long-lasting. In order to make sense of the world around us, humans created language. We assigned meaning to arbitrary so...

I write a feminist column for an amazing tattoo, pin-up, art, and culture magazine Missy/Ink Magazine ( available online and in print here !)  it's a really lovely group of women who are all about supporting each other and their community. I recently went to Missy/Ink's anniversary gala which raised money for the local women's shelter in my city! I feel blessed to have found a space to be explicitly and unapologetically feminist in my writing.    one of my articles was a cover story (above) and  i've even modeled  for the magazine (right)! So, my latest article was a renewal of a piece I wrote about body hair. I wanted to share it with y'all. And, if you are interested in past or future articles I've written for Missy/Ink please consider ordering issues, and check out  the magazine's fundraising campaign  to help it get onto a shelf near you!! The article reads as follows...