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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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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My good friend and partner in crime Lisa Marie Basile is going to be writing a weekly column for us at GHQ, and I honestly couldn’t be more excited. Lisa is a writing and editing pro who interned at CosmoGIRL! last year, is working on a novel, and will be the editor-in-chief of our […]

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I should be paying attention to my Human Sexuality Professor, but unfortunately my computer is distracting me (and normally I do use it for note taking in class). But taking a glass half full approach, if my computer wasn’t such a distraction, I would not be able to share with you this heartbreaking account […]

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And I thought it was disgusting that young boys were playing video games that encourages them to kill women in order to receive “health points”. Then my friend showed me an article about this website game called Miss Bimbo. Described as a “fashion” game, this game encourages young girls (the majority between the ages of […]

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Okay, I need to vent. It’s a cloudy and snowy Sunday afternoon and as I am hugged tightly by two of my down comforters, I am excited to find a light Sunday afternoon movie (think You’ve Got Mail). Well as I click pass the college basketball games, and episode of Friends and several […]

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Hey everybody, guess what my newest most wonderful endeavour is!!!!!!!!!Yesterday I dyed my hair red!!! I am naturally a dirty blondish color, and am now a light/reddish/firetruckish auburn. I LOOOOOOOOVE IT!!! I have had pink and blue extensions, but never actually done something this drastic and IT ROCKS!!! I am offically very hardcore. lololol. Anyways, […]

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I am working on the Fashion & Beauty Communications Milestone at SU. It’s such a unique and interesting program that allows me to study History of Fashion Design (even though I’m not in the Art & Design school) and Beauty & Diversity in the Media. At least, that’s what I am studying this semester. […]

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Hello everybody! I actually saved this post about a month ago because I hadn’t figured out how to upload my pics onto posts (I still don’t….) hehe but I here it is. Better late then never! I actually now have about 9 strands of blue hair!! I reallyyyyyyy love it. Truly LIBERATING!!!!!!!
Hello everybody! I just […]

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Far from her Clueless days (or is she?), Alicia Silverstone latest endeavor is a nude (and somehow, scandalous) ad for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). In this “leave little to the imagination” commercial, she attempts to seduce the viewer by enrapturing him/her with her eyes and signature hair toss. She’s mumbling something […]

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