by Melissa Karen Sances | Oct 11, 2024 | Featured, Uncategorized, Wellness
By MELISSA KAREN SANCES For the Advocate As the sun sets over the Hidden Temple in Florence, 14 adults in their comfiest pajamas sprawl on a generous bed of quilts. Outside on this crisp October Saturday, the foliage is just starting to turn, its pops of color...
by Melissa Karen Sances | Aug 30, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, Food Booze and Beyond, Uncategorized
By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate To Coco Bustin, the body is a beautiful vessel. She first came to appreciate it in figure drawing classes at Tufts University, where she met every curve and contour with wonder. Nudity, she realized, was an artistic...
by Melissa Karen Sances | Jul 12, 2024 | Featured, Get Out With Staff Picks, Leisure, Uncategorized, Wellness
By MELISSA KAREN SANCES For the Advocate The founder of the Body Liberation Outdoor Club saw “The Fat Babe Pool Party” in “Shrill,” the Hulu series about a heavy woman’s journey to embracing her body, and felt like she was in a dream. In the fourth episode of Season...
by Melissa Karen Sances | Jun 28, 2024 | Featured, Staff Picks, Uncategorized
By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate “You know what goes on behind closed doors in a polyamorous household?” Fox asks, and I lean in closer. We’re on the phone and he is 800 miles away, so I am leaning toward — nothing. I am on the precipice of something, I...
by Melissa Karen Sances | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured, Staff Picks, Uncategorized, Wellness
By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate “Emily’s mission in life is to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies.” This sentence mesmerized me. It’s an assured statement about a complicated topic: body image and sexuality, and...
