State Of The Woman·Feb 2, 2018Target pulls “Better Late Than Ugly” product after outrage from body positive community.Less than 36 hours after a make up pouch on Target shelves with the phrase “Better Late Than Ugly” was called out by IG influencer and body…
State Of The Woman·Jan 19, 2018An Open Letter To The Men Who Changed MeI’m 28 years old. It’s a young 28 in respect to the fact that I have a ways to go before becoming the woman I dream of being. Yet it is an…
State Of The Woman·Jan 3, 2018The Color Brown: My Exploration And Experience In This SkinBrown. I only wore brown when I was younger. Not during the years when my mother used to dress me in comfortable hand-me-down clothes…
State Of The Woman·Dec 30, 2017Erica Garner: More Than The Battle Against Police Injustice; Maternal Mortality in the USThis morning we got the heartbreaking confirmation of the death of Erica Garner. She passed away in Brooklyn, New York after a heart attack…
State Of The Woman·Nov 28, 2017Matriarchal Lines: Learning Feminism in an Unexpected WayGrowing up, I didn’t understand why my grandmother behaved as she did.
State Of The Woman·Nov 28, 2017The Cracked Door: A discussion about the gateway between society and survivor.There is a breaking occurring lately. A cracking open of an old door, long ignored by the world but intimately familiar to those who’ve…
State Of The Woman·Nov 14, 2017The Ever-Exhausting Paper Chase: From Nothing to SomethingOver the last few months, I’ve been shopping for places to live, and, let me tell you, it’s nowhere near as fun as they make it seem on…
State Of The Woman·Nov 14, 2017In 2014, I began work on a middle-grade fiction book, my first.It’s upbeat, positive, often-comic (I hope) stuff. When I wrote it, Barack Obama was our president, and though we all knew America had a…
State Of The Woman·Oct 30, 2017Our first live event! It’s a Documentary Dinner Party and you’ll want a seat at the table.For our inaugural Documentary Dinner Party we will be having a lovey long table seated meal at the Harlem TEEM co-working space and…
State Of The Woman·Oct 30, 2017Celebration of Self: An Experience with Body Positive Boudoir PhotographyBy Chelsey Weinmann exclusively for State Of The WomanA response icon1A response icon1