In Grace and Frankie Season 3, the marketing for the duo’s new vibrator featured a vulva painting. This might have been played for laughs on the show, but in real life, it’s the kind of painting Austin artist Charlotte Criste does—with a quite serious effect on women who participate.
Criste’s art is called “Yoni Expressions”: the word “yoni” means female sexual and reproductive organs in Sanskrit. Criste facilitates the creation of paint and paper impressions of individual vulvas, a live process that empowers through a bold letting-go, given that many women were raised to feel a sense of shame about their vagina’s appearance.
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