My real body is naked and lumpy and strange and I’m fine with it.

...starting this month, each red box of Spanx promotes a dose of what the company says is feminist inspiration: “Don’t take yourself or the ‘rules’ too seriously,” reads a message card.

I have a pair of knock-off spanx that I love. They go from bra to a little above my knees and they are perfect for chub rub. I’ve tried other shorts-like things but nothing’s ever done the job as efficiently and reliably. (And yes, I’ve tried the other “tricks” for chub rub and none work for me, other than an actual…

I wear Spanx while giving engineering lectures to all-male audiences. I find the squeeeziness to be really comfortable, and it keeps my posture good during long lectures. I wear corsets for ballroom dance, because it looks good, and if I don’t, I get crippling back pain after an hour.

I am a feminist who loves her Spanx. I have always seen them more as the magical substance that keeps the skin of my inner thighs from rubbing away when I’m wearing a dress. When it’s warm out I prefer to wear dresses, and I have found that Spanx are a lot more effective at preventing painful rub then regular…

My most memorable concert experience actually happened on the way to the parking lot/garage after the show ended.

Yes, all 3 former wives knew, or at least had a sense. He admitted that he never really came completely out with it with his first wife and Kris—just told them he liked to wear women’s clothing. But I think he did say that he told his second wife (Brody and Brandon’s mom) a lot more and didn’t really downplay it with…

Hearing that Kanye helped Kim understand and accept Bruce’s transition made me like them more than I ever have before. Pretty cool, Kanye.

That better have been one damn important text.

That’s awesome!

I’ve been a fan of U2 most of my life. When Vertigo came out at the end of 2004, I pretty much bought all of their old albums. I decided that I have to see them since I missed out on seeing them back in 2000-2001. I bought a bunch of tickets to see them in May of 2005 in Chicago. May 7 was the first time I saw them…

Back in 1999 when I was 11, my dad got me the most incredible present I will ever receive in my life: third row tickets to the Spice World tour.

I went to Austin with a friend the summer before we went to college, we stayed with her brother and his chef roommate. They left for a sold-out Ween show that we hoped to scalp tickets to. I was STARVING and they had no food in their house, just raw ingredients (damn chefs), until I found a bag of cookies in a high…

This past year at Washington’s big outdoor festival, Sasquatch, my friends’ band was playing on one of the smaller stages. My group and I headed out pretty early in the day to catch them (they actually ended up getting a great crowd, but because they had an early set time, I was super afraid that nobody would show…

Less of “a concert” experience and more of a music festival experience. When I was 16 I went to bonnaroo and tried acid for the first time (with my older sister and my dad no less, a well supervised trip). I have no memory of the shows that night. But when I was trying to find my way back to my tent and there…

3 years ago: Popped a pill, ate a brownie, drank some four loko, then went to see The Weeknd. It was so amazing that obviously I'll never do that again because I'm so happy that I survived. When we left, every light I looked at was so wiggly.

About 9 or 10 years ago, I had traveled over five hours to see Nine Inch Nails in North Carolina. The air had been really hot and humid all day, so when the sun went down that night and the concert started, a thunderstorm whipped up and the most amazing lightning started cracking while Trent Reznor was shrieking with…

This reminds me of when I was in Australia visiting my dad and while he was at work my step-mom took me to this all Aussie music fest called Bass in the Grass. I was 14 at the time, just for reference. The closing band was called Machine Gun Fellatio and they were SO MUCH FUN. Then when we got home, I asked my dad…

Stevie Nicks’ Wild Heart tour: I was in middle school and my dad took me to see her. The show was two hours away from where we lived, so he let me skip school the next day. I was so excited when she came on stage, I burst into tears.

When she was touring with Robyn, I saw Kelis, in a tinsel wig and a rainbow spandex jumpsuit, sing “Milkshake” over a remix of Madonna’s “Holiday”. It was possibly the gayest moment of my life.