Sasheer Zamata is the newest guest on Rookie's wonderful Ask a Grown Woman series. In it, she discusses flattering attention, street harassment, racist boyfriends and the right time to lose your virginity.
Gretchen Weiners interviewed Karen Smith for Regina George's latest Burn Book, and the result is just as cloying and unreadable as you might think. Rolling Stone shares an exclusive interview between BFFs/human centipedes Lena Dunham and Mindy Kaling, for Tavi Gevinson's Rookie Yearbook Two, a hard-copy offshoot of…
I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats. And it had bunnies! (The bunny farm idea is seriously excellent advice. I'll be employing that in all future parties I go to until the end of time.)
Tavi Gevinson and some of her Rookie Magazine staffers think UK-based online fashion megastore ASOS's "Rookie" sweatshirt looks miiighty familiar. Is ASOS sneakily trying to rip off the teen-approved logo?
Last month, Buzzfeed's Katie Notopolous urged Twitter users to #followateen and report on what said teen is up to in a mockingly anthropological tone. (Examples range from "My teen thinks Anne Frank was 'a great girl'" to "My teen is lamenting the fact that she hates the taste of alcohol and cannot do shots like many…
Tavi Gevinson — high school junior, media baron, and Taylor Swift Number One Fan — talks in a new interview about her plans for Rookie, why she's going to college, and why she won't accept ads for "anti-aging, wrinkle shit."
The delightful Rookie Mag regularly asks its teen readers to send in questions to "Ask a Grown Woman" and "Ask a Grown Man" and then gets grown women and grown men to answer them. I wish this had been around when I was 14, but oh well. I had Sassy — I got by.
Supermodel and musician Karen Elson popped up over at Rookie to answer advice questions from teen readers. Elson offered reassurance to one teen who was feeling self-conscious about her tooth gap, gave another advice about how to have a more constructive relationship with her mother (boundaries!), and helped out a…
ABC has just ordered a pilot script for Rookie, a half-hour single-camera comedy about a young woman who attempts to reinvent herself by becoming a cop and ends up building a surrogate family out of her fellow police officers. Easy A producer Will Gluck will act as a non-writing EP and — oy — Tosh.0's Scott…
If you're into channeling a future babe but don't want to look like you're sporting a straight-up costume, Rookie's put together some hot looks for you. I'm really feeling Barbarella's body suit and Rachael's owl clutch, but are owls totally stupid now? Does that mean I shouldn't buy that American Apparel crop top…
16-year-old Tavi Gevinson is on the cover of Bust magazine and this week's New York Times Style section. The blogger and Rookie editor talks to the former about her interest in fashion, feminist conversion experience, and college plans. The Times tagged along on Rookie's recent road trip of readings and events across…
Fashion blogger, high school student, Jezebel contributor, and fashion writer Tavi Gevinson launched her new site, Rookie yesterday, which has already published plenty of interesting stuff, including an editor's letter in which Gevinson lays out her vision for the publication. Gevinson says that experiences like…
Awesome Chicago resident Tavi Gevinson talked to awesome Chicago exile Ira Glass about one of her upcoming publishing projects. No, not the book, not the freelance contributions to various publications, not the other book, not the website she's apparently launching with Jane Pratt: Gevinson revealed more details of…
