Open Road Summer

Being the Flawless Human that she is, Taylor Swift is clearly top-notch BFF material. Let’s face it, she just gets us. All of her songs are like perfect little completely relatable stories distilled into three minute sonic gut-punches. Listening to her sing about love and betrayal and heartache makes you wonder how Taylor could have possibly […]

Having great best friends is a quintessential part of being a teen. Sometimes, losing those friends is a quintessential part of it too. Whatever your YA experience with BFFs, there’s no question they possess the power to shape who you are, for better or for worse. They’re the people who are there for your breakups, […]

A work of fiction must contain 1) two women, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than a man in order to pass the Bechdel Test, recently renamed the Bechdel-Wallace Test, for its creators Alison Bechdel and Liz Wallace. The test has become a basic feminist standard, but passing it in a […]

Fame. If books and movies have taught us anything about being a celebrity, it’s that it isn’t all glitz and glamour. The drama, the relationships, the pressure, the jealousy…it seems like there’s always something going wrong in a world that’s supposed to feel so right. Back To Top