Articles by Kate Carraway
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
Girls and Boyfriends
I am dubious about those lists of guys you "should" date before you "get married" or what have you. Full story
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
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
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Girl News
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
The Mare
A New Story by Mary Gaitskill 
Toppling a Delicate World
Being Gay and South Asian In America 
There's No Sex in Prison Showers
We Usually Wore Our Underwear 
Try Not to Destroy Your Life
The First Time I Took Molly 
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble 
"Whitey" Isn't Very Popular in Boston
Interviews with Some of His Old Friends 
