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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In addition to stories I have heard from friends working in secondary education I found a news story about the increased amount of x-rated texting among teens. Appearently explicit videos, language, and photographic images are being passed around among some teens across the country. As a result, school administrators, religious and civic organizations, and concerned […]

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Normally I wouldn’t devote an entire post to…myself, but today I am making an exception. As most of you know, I will receive my Bachelors Degree on May 18th. I have been interning at The Yale University Press since last June (with a three month break while I lived in London). I was […]

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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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