GIRL NEWS

The Girl Year in Review

2012 was a year of so much girl-ness (fine, fine, woman-ness too) that all 12 months have been kind of pulsing with hot purple blood and Y-shaped wisdom, you know? (“Wysdom”) Full story

Girls and Prezzies!!!!!

What to Buy Girls: Gift Guide to the Giftening

Let the spirit of Secular-Shopping-and-Disordered-Eatingmas move you! Boys, buy us stuff. Buy us so much stuff! Girls too, for sure. Girls, buy us stuff! Consider the economics of girldom and you will be moved! Full story

Girls and the Worst Thing

Can you hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time, even when it is hard and gives you hurty feelies, or confirms your sense of the world as an ultimately chaotic semi-nightmare? That’s called “cognitive dissonance,” and you need it to understand sexual assault and… Full story

The Girls’ Guide to Winter: Gettin’ Cozytime-Cozykins from November to Eternity Featuring Cuddle-Ups and Boy Talk Around a Mythic Raging Fire

That it gets dark at noon or w/e is of less consequence when you think about winter as a Laplandian fairytale (Lapland is like Narnia but without all the stuff) instead of something brutalist and immovable and boring. Full story

Everything Is the Best

Can we take five fucking minutes to revel in the post-Tuesday-ness of this week and be all IT’S THE BEST!-ish about it? Full story

Girlsplaining Part Two: Return of the Girlsplainings: Dawn of the Girlsplains: Girlfather Part Two

Kate Carraway counsels the confused on social media response times, "comfort sex" (ick), women being complicit in enforcing systems of shame and insecurity, socks and sandals (ick again), coffee, Kitty Pryde, F buddies, and other girl stuff. Full story

Girlsplaining

So, I read all of the questions you sent through Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and email for this special “Girlsplaining” (a.k.a. Q&A) edition of Girl News, deleted the redundant or annoying questions (and the overlong, nonsense questions, like, are you making fun of me?), saved hal… Full story

Girls and Secrets

Everybody tells me their secrets, and I keep them, but MY big secret is that it’s not because I’m so rock-solid about anything, it’s just that I am half-retarded and fully preoccupied with like anything and everything else and just fucking forget. Full story

What Girls Hate. Haaaaate

You might be thinking, "Hate is a very strong word." I think hearing this from the other summer camp junior-associate-bitches on the tennis court is what made me who I am today. Full story

Girls and College

Power structures are wildly different in a college setting than in high school in that the most important girl is a little hedgehog from some shit town where she was Max Fisher But Worse. Full story

Girls and Fashion - Part II

Guys, it is Girls and Fashion: Part Deux: The Fashioning! Guess why. No guess. No guess. Because it is Fashion Week, which is when a particular subset of the beautiful and the damned do not so much descend on New York but wiggle-wobble into and around it like very attractive gela… Full story

Girls and the Weekend

Labor Day weekend is a holiday but not an important one to have plans for. Instead of doing stuff, how about fill a bowl with strawberries and milk and get a spoon and a book and walk that mess over to a park and lay down on the starched grass? Full story

Everything Is the Worst

It’s the duty of youth to challenge corruption, said our bleach-blond man in the striped sweater, and it is, and not acknowledging the full, filthy thrust of the corruption of Girl Nation by internal and external forces because it’s nicer to just not is the opposite of our mandat… Full story

Girls and Fashion

Almost everything I own, clothes-and-shoes-and-etc-wise, is boxed up and in storage in another country. This is because I went full-retard this year and don’t live anywhere, like, indefinitely, because, I don’t know why. I’ve been wearing the same three identical black t-shirts a… Full story

Stuff Girls Like

And why isn’t a fun thing to do getting every dog you know together and putting treats all on your arms so you can have an actual puppy party where you’re just like huggin’ and huggin’ and huggin’ them? Why is it more fun to buy stale beer instead? See? Nobody actually likes pupp… Full story

Girls and Being a Teenager

Adulthood is just making a Pinterest out of what you liked when you were 15, basically. Full story

Girls' Guide to Etiquette, or, Shut Your Cock-Pocket and Listen to Me You Heinous Miniature Hellmouth-Dwelling Beasts PS I Love You

Do I have your attention, bitches? Full story

Girls and Fucking Off

Fucking off is an important and complicated part of life. Don't fuck it up. Full story

Girls and Fucking Up

I recommend singing the “at you BAYYYYYbee” part of Girl Nation’s current national anthem if you get bummed out a little bit while we’re doing this. Full story

Girls and Boredom

It's a good idea to not do anything with anyone for any reason sometimes. Just bop around and take every moment really seriously, like “What do I think of the colorway in this ad?" Full story

Girls and Being Smart

I don’t have a thesis about why this is, but I do know that a lot of bad shit can be avoided if you keep fifty bucks in your shoe and Plan B and Gravol in your underwear drawer. Full story

Girls and the Rules

Not the fucking The Rules. Just, “the rules.” The rules of girls. Full story

Girls and Hair

“Should I get bangs?” is not a legit girl concern. Stop. Stop asking me this. Full story

Girls and Moms

My mom is very kind and beautiful in a way that is both ideal and traumatizing. Loves navy. Has never yelled at me at all ever and I was a strange and disappointing child. Full story

Girls and Crying

Tears taste good (and so does that santorum-y mixup of tears and warm nose liquid that drips on your lip after a really hardcore session). Full story

Girls and 'Girls'

In this special edish of Girl News we will consider the only thing that matters right now, which is Lena Dunham’s new joint "Girls." Full story

Girls and Giving Up

Giving up and giving in to just being regular is like finding a new continent made of fleece. Full story

Girls and Porn

It’s very difficult to get pornography right and yet it is a pretty constant girl-need, so in that way it is like…. Salad. Shoes? Bags. Lipstick? Full story

Girls and Danger

Danger is the subtext of girl-lives. All of them, all the time. Full story

Girls and Girl on Girl

It's time to get real low, like reeeal low, about girls plus gay. Or, "girls squared"/"girls nth" which is how perv-nerds think about lesbians, right? Maybe? I sure do. Full story

Girls and Work

Listen up, Teen Girl Squad. Avoid having a job for as long as possible, because once you get jumped into work culture you're preeetty much in for life. Full story

Girls and Being Alone

I realized today how long it's been since I've had sex. Is it a) three weeks b) two months c) eight months d) a backwards-shooting Jupiter-C rocket? Full story

Girls and Exes

Ex-boyfriends are the most powerful mutants because they know what your skin tastes like and how it feels when you hate them. Full story

Girls and Staying In

Pretty sure my overall project as a writer/human/girl is to convince other people that caring what other people think of you, especially of your social choices, is an infection. Full story

Girls and the Future

The first line of this content unit is going to be "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" which is obviously the zeroes-and-ones-style code that will create, narrate, and regulate the future. Full story

Girls and Christmas

Even if you are on the up with your family it's still a days-long feelings rumble, with too-convenient avenues for emotional eating and buried-alive amounts of useless television. Full story

Girls and Parties

"Partying" as a verb and concept makes me uncomfortable until I'm doing it. Full story

Girls and Sadness

I'm a happy, posi homie, but once in a while, like now, I get stoked on being sad. Full story

What Girls Want

OOPSIE. Wrote this last week in the disgusting spirit of Black Friday, because I forgot about Thanksgiving. But it's not like we can't still get hard into what we want, as opposed to what we need. Full story

Girls and Holidays

Let's talk VACAY, as I'm readying to go away for months and months (eat my shorts!) to Los Angeles, primarily to flee the wintry hellmouth that is Toronto between January 12 and summer. Full story

Girls and the Internet

Contrary to popular belief, girls are actually better at the internet than boys. Full story

Girls and Growing Up

You have to throw out those busted, worn-down flats with a hole and you have to throw out that fucking Jansport with the Gwen Stefani print and you have to get some functional, grown-ass life things. Full story

Girls and Makeup

It's not about boys. Full story

Girls and Girlfriends

Yes, it's really true that girls give each other a hard time for existing, because we are each the CEO of our own complicated, beautiful, diseased empires, and that can get competitive. Full story

Girls and Boyfriends

I am dubious about those lists of guys you "should" date before you "get married" or what have you. Full story

What Girls Need

What you want is, like, fun and newness and gorgeous chaos and clothes and long, thin, girl-faced boys. But what you need is going to be something quite different. Full story

Girls and Girl Stuff

Girl World--by which I mean the figurative realm belonging to women, and the literal, gross, overstuffed, multicolored-textured-layered habitat that most chicks live in--is characterized by its things, its central symbols. Full story

What Girls Like to Eat

Girls totally love food just like boys but maaaybe even more (?) because we are the sensualists. Say it: seeen-shu-al. Full story

What Girls Like to Wear

Clothes are the most important thing to girls! I don't mean it in a shitty sexist way, come on! As a collective, on a daily basis, the choices of clothes and the style that they're majicked into create a meaningful dialectic of bodies and behaviors. Full story

Girls and Guy Friends

Never have I ever, even in my darkest and most self-hating depths of annihilating sexism, suggested that girls and boys can't be friends. Full story

How Girls Look Good

Forgetting about makeup, which is mostly for shits and gigs, the stuff that girls do to themselves and put on themselves to look good is divisive and conflicted and ultimately so weird. Full story

Girls and Sex

This thing happened to girls and sex that changed it. I think. Maybe it is the slow but eventual workings of girl-boredom and advanced over-it-ness about the useless and terminally fraught "man-woman stuff" to quote my shitty ex-boyfriend (Another gleaming jewel: "Babe, I Googled… Full story

Girls and PMS

Here's what's fun about PMS: It is simultaneously the most unifying thing about being a girl and the thing about being a girl that dudes are most afraid of. (Dudes, you know? Can't live with 'em, pass the peanuts.) Think of PMS like testicles: Everyone assumes that the act… Full story

What Girls Should Do in Their Twenties

I just turned 30.5 and as a half-birthday present to myself I am relieving myself of the shards of non-wisdom that I have gathered in the past ten-point-five years by throwing them your way like so many candy beans. In this scenario that I am imagining, we are drunk and I'm throw… Full story

Why Girls Act Dumb

Acting dumb is a silent plague, a self-imposed reverse eugenics, and the worst thing that girls do to themselves and accept from each other. It's totally crackers. I'm not really sure right now if it's worse to be purposefully stupid, from willful ignorance and the lazies, or to Full story