I am not sure if any of you join me in my obsession with Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (the books and the first movie). I love love love love love love love love it!
I may be an old woman compared to the rest of my GHQ sisters, but I am not going to […]

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I just finished reading Jill Kargman and Carrie Karasyov’s co-written novel Summer Intern, a great YA book which just came out in paperback, and I loved it!
The book follows Kira, a whip-smart, hyper-ambitious girl from Philadelphia who wins an essay contest… and the prize is an internship with Skirt, New York City’s hottest fashion magazine. […]

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Editor’s note: Guest blogger Casey McNulty is a senior at Boston University. She’s interned for CosmoGIRL! and has worked on her school newspaper. She writes a blog for the Albany, New York newspaper the Times Union, where a longer version of this blog post is published (so you can also weigh on the […]

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Courtney Macavinta is a writer, non-profit executive, and teen advocate extraordinaire, who I have the pleasure of publishing on GHQ! She’s the author of Respect: A Girl’s Guide to Getting Respect and Dealing When Your Line is Crossed. She’s the founder of Respect Rx, a program designed to empower girls and women and […]

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This just in from my friend Leora Tanenbaum:
Leora Tanenbaum is now working with high school students writing their college applications essays. Leora is most well-known as the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, which is taught at universities around the country in courses on women’s studies and sexuality. She is […]

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Editor’s note: Lisa Marie Basile is a Girl HeadQuarter’s guest blogger. She’s an editor of the Five Wire blog and the editor-in-chief of Pace University’s student newspaper the Pace Press.
After some thinking, I’ve deduced that the Sex and the City movie was fun. It was cute. It was a good example of […]

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Last year I read Judith Stone’s book titled, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race. This text is a true story about Sandra Laing, a light brown skinned woman who visibly appears to be “mixed-race” or “colored” according to South Africa’s former apartheid caste system was born in Piet […]

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After hearing the sad news last Friday that Tim Russert collapsed and died in the NBC D.C. bureau, I became fascinated with his life. While interning at Hardball with Chris Matthews during the fall of my senior year, I had the opportunity to briefly meet Tim. I always remember him smiling, because any other time […]

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Melissa Walker has done it again. Violet by Design, the second book in the “Violet” series (we wrote about Violet on the Runway last summer, and Violet in Private is due out in August) has joined the ranks of the 7th Harry Potter book, My Friend Leonard, and a few other very rare books […]

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The Washington Post reports that a small amount of so-called “pro-life” drugstores are cropping up in some suburban and rural areas around the country. This interesting new trend brings up all sorts of issues about the implications of free speech. Even though the owners of these pharmacies are claiming to serve as simply an alternative […]

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