I must apologize for having completely disappeared from GHQ recently, but I’ve just begun to master the task of managing my time at the magical land known as the University at Buffalo. I really love it here, and it’s really satisfying to know that all the time I spent last year trying to figure […]

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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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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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So I’m sitting here with a little free time at work and I came across a Newsweek article about a new craze sweeping women who are about to get married. It talked about how brides are going to extremes to look good for their weddings. Apparently, the total cost for an average American wedding […]

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The other night, in the midst of what, for New York City, was a complete blizzard, I went to see the Broadway show Spring Awakening with my friend Kate and some other kids from the Honors College at Pace. And I have to say, I don’t think I have ever seen anything like this […]

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Every girl knows exactly what their wedding is going to be like, right? Well, let’s just say I played dress-up and all that as a little girl, but I never thought much about the details of my wedding. As a self-professed “girlie-girl” this is unheard of. Well, imagine my surprise a few […]

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Right now California polls aren’t even fully counted yet, but I just found this amazing video that Amber Tamblyn and America Ferrera (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Joan of Arcadia, The Ring, Real Women Have Curves) they did a video of Hillary, and I believe it shows how kind she is and how much she […]

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