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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Just a quick note to say Happy Birthday to Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that gave women in America the right to choose. I wholeheartedly believe in reproductive justice and I am thankful that I live in a time where I have the autonomy to make personal decisions about my body. Even though we […]

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Even though I am proud to be a supporter of Obama, I support Hillary Clinton’s campaign and want to see her and Obama run as a joint ticket. We need change and action. We need his hope and vision and her experience in order to take our country back.
We need to move way from the […]

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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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While flipping through an old issue of Listen! magazine featuring a few interesting articles, I came across a quiz and article by a guy named Justin Lookadoo. The quiz was something along the lines of “Are you ready to have sex?” and listed a few true/false questions which were all worth 5 points or so, […]

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This is seriously distressing: Myspace was recently required by several states to find out how many registered sex offenders have Myspace accounts and the number they found was four times their original data. It’s–wait for it–29,000. Initially, Myspace already had a database registered sex offenders whose profiles they had removed, but it only […]

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In the past few weeks, we’ve been having great discussions about sex, abstinence, pregnancy prevention, unplanned pregnancy, virginity, and their ties to religion. But I think there is a bigger question we haven’t raised, yet: why are we so obsessed with virgins, anyway?
A few things to note before I get going: I was baptized […]

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I am all for alternative ways of getting more mainstream, apolitical people interested in politics. But there is no reason for it to come at the expense of women’s progress:

This is just ridiculous. To have scantily clad women fighting one another over political candidiates is a direct insult to work that feminists have […]

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This is going to be one of the more inappropriate things we discuss on Girl HeadQuarters, and I recommend that everyone who isn’t interested in reading thoroughly sexual content stop reading now and enjoy this hilarious LOL Cat. Everyone else, please continue reading below the photo.

This Details article, “Is It Okay to Demand […]

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So, I was at the grocery store about a few weeks ago picking up a few things, and the headline on one of the celebrity tabloids was “Celebrities Without Makeup!!!”
I’m dying to remember which tabloid it was, because I want to adaquately criticize them.
We tend to ream out celebrities who get work done or who […]

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