Have you seen the Barbie movie?

It seems like there are 3 main sides around the movie: The people who love the satire and think it’s amazing, the people who hate it because they think the views are wrong, and the people who eye roll it and think it’s trite.

Series 6 is the first series of vulva pies made from reference photos submitted to me! I was very nervous to ask for model participation. In fact, I have been avoiding it since I started the project.

Instead, I spent hours scouring the internet for copyright free and limited use images so that I wouldn’t have to find real models. Now I think I was being a little ridiculous, but I had never sent or received a genital pic before! It was scary.

Series 2 continues to celebrate vulva diversity using made-from-scratch pies and looks at the human vulva from a frontal viewpoint. This series was a lot less time-consuming to create than Series 1 and felt more like drawing than sculpting, but I took the time to add some nice crust edges for design.

I tried to link to the actual page on gynodiversity.com where I originally found the study, but it gave me a 404 error 😩

So I decided to offer it here – but be advised it is a PDF download of the 30 page study and it does have full color photos of real vulvas. I am also going to let them know their link it broken and if they fix it, I will point everyone to their site instead!

Series 1 celebrates vulva diversity using made from scratch pies. Or rather, this is one facet of Series 1. When I started, I wasn’t really sure what I was celebrating. What I had was a compulsion to create realistic figure sculptures of the vulva with pie crust.

Recently I was asked to help a master’s degree candidate by answering some questions to support of her research. Her work is focused on ending violence against women. She contributes the lack of comprehensive sex education in Western society to our shameful statistics of violence. What’s really cool is that she will use her research to design sex education for men and women.

Menstruation, sexuality, sexual desire, smell, age, appearance, discharge… these are some stigmas around the vulva.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could step forward together and say the time’s up for these archaic fears and beliefs? It would be a different world, for sure. I know I’m not the only one who is ready to make some positive changes.

It makes me cringe to read the title of my post, but I really want to talk about it. Some random person I don’t know posted a screenshot of my first series of vulva pies to a random place on the internet and that began a sharing frenzy. It got so bad near Thanksgiving and Christmas that I was getting daily messages from people who had seen my art out in the wild.

Creating these vulva pies has been one of my greatest pleasures as an artist. If anyone had told me that one day I would put together all of my baking skills and art skills and make pie art featuring vulvas, I would have laughed and thought they were crazy. Yet, here we are.

If you like stories, here is how the idea of me making the first vulva pies for Pies in the Window began: