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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Editor’s note: Lisa Marie Basile is a Girl HeadQuarter’s guest blogger. She’s an editor of the Five Wire blog and the editor-in-chief of Pace University’s student newspaper the Pace Press.
After some thinking, I’ve deduced that the Sex and the City movie was fun. It was cute. It was a good example of […]

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After hearing the sad news last Friday that Tim Russert collapsed and died in the NBC D.C. bureau, I became fascinated with his life. While interning at Hardball with Chris Matthews during the fall of my senior year, I had the opportunity to briefly meet Tim. I always remember him smiling, because any other time […]

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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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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 am writing a paper about identity politics and digital culture right now, focusing on the advent of blogs like stuffwhitepeoplelike.com and exploring their meaning in relationship to the political economy. As a result, I am noticing everything on the internet and attempting to deconstruct what is behind specific forms of visual representation… When I […]

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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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