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Skirt is all about women...their work, play, families, creativity, style, health and wealth, bodies and souls. Skirt is an attitude...spirited, independent, outspoken, serious, playful and irreverent, sometimes controversial, always passionate.

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Featured Artist

Connie Rice was born in Washington, D.C., and currently lives in Palm Coast, FL, with her husband and six-month-old son. She comes from a family of gifted female artists including her mother, sisters, grandmother, aunt, niece, and cousins. She has displayed her art in several venues, including four solo shows; her paintings hang in collections in New York, California, and Hawaii among other locales.
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Skirt!Giveaway

Broadway Books is giving away 10 copies of The Ultimate Guide to Chick Flicks to Skirt! readers in April.
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Bitch of the month club

Post your best bitch. We'll pick out the best ones.
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"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?/The world would split open."

Muriel Rukeyser

Skirt! Features

The Udder Truth

I could feel him breathing on my shoulder. I wondered how long it would be before he said something? Sometimes the stare is so hard I can feel the thoughts tapping me on my back.
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Topless

On a recent trip to the Algarve Coast, my husband, Nick, and I were a bit shocked by the display of nearly naked women sunbathing on the beach.
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Bare Despair

Last year, during one of my many laser treatments to remove a stubborn tattoo, as my dermatologist finished burning a significant portion of skin from my ankle, he asked, "How old are you, Ms. Johnson? 28, 29?"
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Shame, Shame, Go Away

As I get older I find that either I have no shame or I'm just more secure with my body. Maybe it's a little of both. When I was 19 and my breasts were floating comfortably under my chin on their own volition, I would cover them up as if they were a horrible disfigurement. I wore large shirts to hide my cute little body. I could kick myself for it now. If it didn't aggravate the arthritis in my hip I would kick myself.
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All Made Up and Nowhere to Hide

The other day I got all dressed up and fussed over my makeup so I could go and get nearly naked with a man who isn't my husband. We get together once, maybe twice a year. Always at his place, never mine. And though I am so careful to look pretty when I see him, as soon as he closes the door behind him, he pays no attention to my face whatsoever. Like so many men, he is interested in only one thing.
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Yummy Mommies

There's a new cultural icon out there, and you can call her a "yummy mommy." The term is an Americanization of the more apt British term, "yummy mummy," which is used in England like so: "Men's pulses are racing over a new trendÑthe "yummy mummy" who proves you can have kids and be sexy." (The Daily Record)
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