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    bananaprincess: Giday in Australia Week! Hortense you are my fave. There is a great article in this weeks Weekend Australian Colour Magazine about Rupert Murdoch's mo... more »
    creamandblack: I LOVE the concept, so I went to check out the website: [www.indigo4girls.com] Pretty lame actually. I really cant see "tweens"/teenage girls being in... more »
    AraApe: This brings back memories of my insanely fundamentalist aunt buying me a subscription to a Christian mag called Brio. I think the purpose was to encou... more »
    daisen-in: Did any of y'all read Jump magazine in the 90's? It was an American magazine really similar to this. Models ran the gamut of body types, eg. more »
    Stagtasticfantastic: Why, oh why can't this exist without the government policing what no government has business policing? I can't condone such laws, but I would LOVE for... more »
    funnyface: I think I was a smidge too young for Sassy, but I was a big fan of Girls' Life, which always had a real girl on the cover... I graduated to Girls' Lif... more »
    Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane: I grew up on horrid Australian teenage magazines (hello Girlfriend and Dolly, and they taught me I was totally inferior, was never going to get a boyf... more »
    Janie Jones: How about something like this for adult women? Like a Jezebel magazine? more »
    Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.: What about a magazine for gay teenagers? They're out there (no pun intended), but there are few publications, if any, catering to them. The best I can... more »
    Kali Mama: Am I too cynical by finding it contrived they decidedly avoided putting a blond on the cover, like "real girls are brunettes"? Maybe I'm just rambling. more »
    SkipToMyLou: I just keep looking a the cover on the left and thinking how Cosmo or CosmoGirl would have 'shopped the shit out of that upper arm and left her with a... more »
    ILiketheWord'Pugilist': May I just throw this out there, Jezebel, I would like to see Hortense do more writing, please? During the week, weekends, 24/7? more »
    sequined: The problem of course is that magazines will have to head in directions that earn them money, and for whatever reason wholesome magazines seem not to ... more »
    lowestformofwit: Did anyone else read Girls Life? This kind of reminds me of that. Real girls as models in their limited back-to-school photo shoots, lots of articles ... more »
    YourScreenplaySucks: Suuuure. It's all fun and empowering games until Teen Vogue takes over in a bloody coup and subscribers suddenly start getting issues of Indigo featur... more »
    ceejeemcbeegee is not here: That reminds me... Anyone remember Ebony Jr.? It was like Highlights for Black kids. ::crickets:: Damn, I'm old. Anyway, here's the updated version.... more »
    The HZA.: Indigo, I needed you when I busy reading the crappy mags as a teen. more »
    morninggloria: Who's going to make teenagers feel bad about themselves now? I guess it's going to have to be me. more »
    beatrice2000: I read New Moon when I was 13, where I first learned about Ramadan (via an essay by a young Saudi girl) and felt inspired by how many talented smart y... more »
    tell Dolly Parton again: This reminds me of American Girl magazine, which was from way back in the day before Mattel bought the company, and was all about ways girls could ent... more »
  • #maghag

    Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"

    At a time when magazines are struggling all over, a bit of good news comes to us from Australia, where a new teen magazine, Indigo has found an audience by focusing on real young women. More »
  • #tweenagewasteland

    Why The Fuck Won't Teen Magazines Put Models On The Cover?