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

Questions from readers: Do girls have way more sexual freedoms than guys? At the bar I blacked out and shoved my hands down a friend’s pants and kissed her, and we made out hammered, and then in the morning we lolled and gossiped about guys. 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

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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - Girls and Being a Teenager

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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - Girls and Fucking Off

You guys say “fucking off,” right? Or “fucking around”? Could be a regional schism, like whether you smoke up, smoke down, or smoke out, but for our purposes, fucking off is, like, screwing around. Full story

Girl News - 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

Girl News - 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? How does it speak to me?” Full story

Girl News - 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

Girl News - Girls and the Rules

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

Girl News - Girls and Hair

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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - Girls and Danger

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

Girl News - 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

Girl News - Girls and Work

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

Girl News - 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