Unprofessional, trashy, a marker of low self-esteem -- these are just a few words that I've heard used to describe my many piercings. While our society is fortunately moving toward eliminating that ...

As a teenager, the coolest thing you could do was to get your belly button pierced. Unfortunately, with a strict Zambian mother, I was forced to skip that edgy phase, and more than a decade on, I find ...