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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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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I seriously love Cristina Page. She’s a consultant for major pro-choice groups, she’s the author of two books, including How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America (now you get the title of this post), and she’s a really great mentor for young women.
Cristina has a fantastic post up at the Huffington Post today called “Obama: […]

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Through GHQ, I had the opportunity to review a young adult novel by one of my favorite authors. Meg Cabot’s How to be Popular was overall, a cute story that made me nostalgic for my teen years.
The novel stars Steph Landry, a 16-year-old girl whose number one desire, like most teenagers, is to be popular. […]

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I’ve been guest blogging for this great women’s lifestyle and finance web-site DailyCents.com. Check out the web-site! It just launched last fall, and they cover really important topics like money, work, politics, and relationships… and of course, style! Plus, my friend Hannah Seligson, author of New Girl on the Job, is one […]

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*I feel the need to place a warning of sorts here, as the topic of this post involves a series of ads which are rather graphic and disturbing.*
The other day I stumbled upon an ad that struck me as both tragic and terrifying. It was a picture of a teenage girl lying stomach-down on […]

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It’s a Tuesday afternoon and I should be working on Non Fiction portfolio of even my Senior Seminar’s term paper, but alas I am watching another episode of Scrubs. Why am I telling you about my procrastination?
Well because I just saw a commercial of Edge Shaving Gel (men’s shaving cream). It begins by […]

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