The bully moved to town in fourth grade, when social groups were already solidified and best friends were already established. As memory serves, he was the main antagonist in all my middle school stories. Legend has it that on his first day, he made his grand entrance by slipping and falling on a single Kleenex on the…
The first trailer for Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved novel A Wrinkle in Time is finally here, and it’s everything we hoped it would be.
Columbia University has settled with Paul Nungesser, a then-student who was investigated for allegedly raping classmate Emma Sulkowicz in 2012, the Columbia Spectator first reported.
Of all the emotions, it’s humiliation that scars the most deeply. The memory of an embarrassing moment that happened decades ago can still stop a person in their tracks and devastate them for days, weeks, or even a lifetime.
As you close your eyes at night and await Old Mother Sleep to ferry you to her lair, do you sometimes find yourself wondering: Are Giselle Bündchen and Tom Brady ever going to get to join that country club? I mean, they live RIGHT next door.
Cheating website Ashley Madison said on Friday that it will pay $11.2 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by 37 million U.S. users whose personal information was leaked in July of 2015.
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Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Y/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our very scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. It’s very serious.
After stints at Deadspin, Gawker (RIP), Deadspin again, a trip outside the GMG universe to The Hairpin, and then the past three years at Jezebel, Emma Carmichael’s last day as Editor-in-Chief of the site you are reading is today.
Throughout my teen years, I went to a small K-12 school in Kentucky where the bulk of my peers wore more-or-less the same kind of thing, had more-or-less the same kind of hair, and attended my bat mitzvah with the ginger politeness of child snorklers encountering their first manta rays. Being a somewhat overeager…
Homeowners across America have a lot of regret about a lot of aspects of home ownership, including but not limited to not having enough space. Attention, tiny home stans: This one’s for you.
From just about any way you look at it, the three years I’ve spent at Jezebel and the six years I’ve spent at Gawker Media have been a continuous series of calamities ranging from the minor to the severe. If I’d been scripting it for a prestige miniseries you would tell me my plot was excessive and unrealistic. I…
Though Donald Trump has promised to keep jobs in America, and Ivanka Trump has claimed that improving conditions for working women is her “life’s mission,” the labor practices of the Ivanka Trump brand suggest very much the opposite. Drawing on data from U.S. customs and shipping records, in addition to interviews…
The salon was busy when I walked in. There was the chatter of stylists gossiping with clients, the whirl of hair dryers and the receptionist laughing into her cellphone. She paused the conversation to ask if she could help me.
Having just moved back into my childhood bedroom in my parents’ house after graduating college, I’m in a whirlwind process of going through all of my old stuff. I was always the kind of person to start a diary, write in it for maybe a week, and then give up, which is why I’ve come across a bunch of barely-used…
There have always been female fans of comics, even if the business hasn’t played to that audience very faithfully. But for a brief moment, teenage girls and young women were one of the biggest demos in the industry. Specifically, during the 1950s boom in passionate, dramatic, tear-stained romance comics.
A third of the way into the 1981 ABC movie The Best Little Girl in the World, lead character Casey Powell steps onto the scale at the doctor’s office. She weighs nearly 83 pounds and so far, we’ve seen Casey, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, throw up food, ditch meals entirely, and exercise in her bed at 3 a.m.
Everyone had their spot. They were the places we went to chill, escape or eat, to laugh, make out or decompress, to rant about life-altering events and basically live out our lives free from stressful adults. In honor of Teen Week, these are the memorable places the Jezebel staff frequented as teens, either alone or…
