If you're like me and you are a woman, or just a human in general, you likely grew up with multiple different media sources, other humans and subtle nudges to change the way you looked from a very young age. You were told or even programmed to believe that you were either too much or too little of something. Your thighs are too thick, your waist isn't skinny enough, your boobs aren't big enough, your outfit isn't trendy enough or doesn't fit in. On and on and on. This rhetoric is something we...

I can remember the first time I intentionally dressed like a man. I was living in the Navy Yard, Brooklyn neightborhood in New York City. I was attempting to make it in New York, prior to when I was hired on as a Health Inspector for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. I was working so many different jobs, but just loving my life there having been in NY less than a year. Just 23 years old, first time living outside of my home state of Indiana and soaking it all up with fellow...

It can be one of the more difficult things to do after spending an extended amount of time in the outdoors. After the initial shock of...