I am addicted to what is called one of the best new shows on television. Mad Men, which airs on Sunday evenings at 10 p.m. on AMC is the saga of the members of the Sterling Cooper advertising agency and the lovely ladies that work there and are married to the men.
The show takes place […]

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Instead of loathing the return of my beloved (and often uncomfortable and painful) monthly visitor, I have decided to embrace our long-term relationship and track my periods online. I love Mon.thly.info, a website where I am able to track and predict my period and ovulation cycle for free. This site is the best period related […]

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This blog post, which was originally published on July 1, is cross-posted from Interestingly Enough, a blog written by Kibkabe Araya. She is a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, who has allowed Girl HeadQuarters to start cross-posting some of her excellent writing! Here’s Kibkabe!
How do you really feel? Sad, depressed, gloomy. […]

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So… it is pretty clear to me that many of us have a love/hate relationship with Barbie. Many Women’s Studies classes have led me to think about my relationship to Barbie on deeper levels than I care to even admit. “)
I think the right wing condemnation of the new biker Barbie is a bit much. […]

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So after finishing The Other Boleyn Girl last night, I began thinking as I fell asleep about the seemingly dozens of books that have been turned into movies as of late, including Phillipa Gregory’s tale of the Boleyn sisters.
I saw the movie back when it came out this spring and very much enjoyed it. It […]

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Today the news ticker on my AOL home page advertised “The Girls of Olive Garden on Playboy.com”. I thought it must be a joke; however it is [sadly] a true playboy feature.
This trinity of capitalism, objectification, and literal exploitation of female labor astounds me. I am not passing judgment on the people posing; however […]

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According to Politico.com, Obama’s campaign released a statement condemning New Yorker magazine’s recent cover featuring Obama in a caricature of Islamic dress and his wife adorned in a racist caricature of black femininity. The cover depicts Obama and his wife giving each other the now famous “fist bump”. In the image, Michelle Obama is lampooned […]

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Clare Langan is a senior at Marist College in New York, studying fashion merchandising and business. She has interned at Family Circle magazine, and she just returned from a semester in Florence; she’s also an avid runner, shoe-shopper, and cook! She hopes to pursue a career that can help people, one article at […]

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I just read a really, really cool book that I think you GHQ readers will love: How to Be Bad. This YA fiction book, collectively written by E. Lockhart, Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski, chronicles a weekend in the life of Jesse, Vicks, and Mel, three Florida-based teenagers who decide to go on a […]

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Blair Brettschneider is a junior at the University of Miami majoring in journalism and American Studies and is currently interning at Shape Magazine. In Miami, she works as one of the editors of the campus magazine and serves as philanthropy chair of her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. Outside of classes, she enjoys community service, […]

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