January 2012
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WatchThat red, silky robe and rifle! Those washed-out vocals! THAT STUDDED LEATHER JACKET. How can you *not* love Alison Krauss of Sleigh Bells in this new video, Comeback Kid? — Jenna
A ghost teasingly takes off his sheet. Underneath... →
Love the quiet brilliance of these ‘sexts’ from New Yorker-published poet Tricia Lockwood and heroine for all Internet-Americans — Jenna
November 2011
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stirrings
Thessaly: I have a new girl crush.
Jenna: ME TOO! You go first.
Thessaly: Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Jenna: Ooh. Yes.
Thessaly: Who is yours?
Jenna: RIHANNA
October 2011
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September 2011
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“Edited by Jenna Wortham, a staff technology reporter at the New York Times, and...”
– Time Magazine on Girl Crush.
Matchbook Mag on Girl Crush
Check out this lovely article about our zine in the September issue of Matchbook Mag.
What’s refreshing about GC is that for Thessaly and Jenna smart doesn’t mean pompous. Girl Crush effortlessly mixes highbrow and lowbrow pop culture references with the grace and aptitude that true fashionistas use to mix designer clothing and H&M. Their zine is the literary equivalent of...
August 2011
18 posts
California Girls
Zan Romanoff’s essay in Girl Crush about Joan Didion was excerpted on The Paris Review Daily today (along with Julia Felsenthal’s illustration of Didion):
Of course, no one knows this better than Joan Didion. She loves the state as only its exiles can; she recognizes that California is a land for the stupid and beautiful and she knows that there is still a romance to it that, even...
Signed, Sealed and (Almost) Delivered!
This morning, we lovingly packed, sealed and stamped more than 200 copies of GIRL CRUSH ZINE!!! We shipped them all over the world — to Singapore, Virginia, Minneapolis, Australia and beyond! They should start arriving in your mailboxes as early as Thursday and we can’t W A I T to hear what you think. We’d love it if you sent us your thoughts about the zine, snapshots GIFs,...
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Last Night!
Eee! We did it! Thank you to EVERYONE who came. (Party pictures coming soon.) We had a blast!! —T&J
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slow motion crawl: ATTENTION TEENAGE GIRLS WITH... →
tulletulle:
For a site I am starting in September we are doing a monthly feature called FRIEND CRUSH where you nominate a friend or girl you admire [stalk] from afar from your school/community and talk about how much you love her and we all SPREAD THE GIRL LOVE AROUND. If you would like to nominate your…
RAD. Looking forward to seeing what Tavi unveils in September. — Jenna
Best New Zines List!
“Though the nature of magazines may be changing, these publications prove, page by page, that print ain’t dead yet.” Thanks, Refinery29, for mentioning Girl Crush as a hot new zine! Check out all the other amazing zines (like our pal Hamish’s Afterzine), too. —Thessaly
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Being in awe of older girls is part of being a... →
A lovely write-up by Eva Wiseman of The Guardian on girl crushes (with a bonus mention of our zine!!) — Jenna
The most important thing, I think, is celebrating... →
Heart heart heart this interview with Barbara Frankie Ryan, a zine making queen who lives in London and is curating an art show titled “Girls + Zines.” — Jenna
“With the general confusion as to what men want—“Shall I be fast or...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Girls Believe in Girls,” from 1930. 1930! It appears in the recently published A Short Autobiography, a collection of Fitzgerald’s essays. —Thessaly
(Thanks Sam MacLaughlin from McNally Jackson!)
WatchLatest obsession: Grimes aka Claire Boucher, a 22-year-old singer from Montreal. Her otherworldly pop is great company for these sultry summer nights. — Jenna
July 2011
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“The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen
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GIRL CRUSH ZINE is a wrap!
After weeks of sifting through dozens of amazing essays and illustrations, tweaking the design and shooting the cover, we’re happy to announce that the first issue of GIRL CRUSH ZINE is officially a wrap! We closed the issue earlier this month—with the help of several bottles of wine, deliveries from Seamless Web and the occasional detour on Turntable.fm, of course.
We are thrilled to...
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June 2011
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