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bananaprincess
01/18/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 mother , Elizabeth, who is about to turn 100. She is amazing, and her life story is so interesting. She married at 18 a man 24 years her senior and now has 73 decendants and she has had an amazing life. YOu might like it for the Jezzies.
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creamandblack
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 interested in "how to make your own bookmark". I thought the whole thing was pretty uninspiring, especially the layout, photography and look of the magazine. It felt more like a newsletter than a magazine.

Don't get me wrong, I really wanted to like it. I just dont think it will last- i dont think girls will want to read it.
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bananaprincess
01/18/09

@creamandblack:

Good on you for taking an interest and checking it out. Why not take it a step further and offer to do a couple of pages for them to Jazz it up. This is such a Jez project in the making...there are so many of you that work in this industry.
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AraApe
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 encourage teen girls in their relationships with Jesus and pimp out Focus on the Family mission trips. In reality, it just gave really unrealistic advice concerning masturbation and sex.
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gobblegirl
01/17/09

@AraApe: was the advice just: "don't"?
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daisen-in
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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.
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Stagtasticfantastic
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 women's magazines to be less evil. Sigh.
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gobblegirl
01/17/09

@LucyStag: I don't have a problem with the labeling-photoshop part of it. i see it as truth-in-advertising legislation, which I can get behind. Just keeps companies from lying to the people.
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funnyface
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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' Life after American Girl Magazine, which also featured real girls on the cover. Glad to see there's something like Indigo covering the same turf for girls today... I just wish we had something similar in the states.
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gobblegirl
01/17/09

@funnyface: New Moon?
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daisen-in
01/17/09

@gobblegirl: We had Jump magazine in the 90's- did you ever read that? I loved it as a teenager.
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Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane
01/17/09

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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 boyfriend, and to top it off, I was stupid for not knowing who the blonde bimbo off Neighbours. I don't even live in Australia Dolly! I know we have Neighbours, but I'm not going to watch it because it's at 4.30 and I could be waxing my non existent bikini line instead!
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Janie Jones
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
How about something like this for adult women? Like a Jezebel magazine?
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Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 think of is the GenQ section of the Advocate.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
01/17/09

@Remedios Varo rides again! (frmrly LateNightQuesadilla): That's a really good question. I've never thought of that. Maybe in a few years when gays are actually recognized as actual human beings, someone will take note. I'm not gay but this is chapping my ass now that you've mentioned it. Also I meant to tell you earlier and forgot but I like your new name.
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Kali Mama
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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.
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hortense
01/17/09

@Kali Mama: I'm a blonde, and I pick up on things like this too. But hopefully it's not that way for every cover.
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tessa
01/17/09

@Kali Mama: They have a website ([www.indigo4girls.com]), and there are blondes there. And young women of color in their 'style' section, which makes me happy as well. And the 'style' section just includes young women being asked to wear some of their own clothes, not suggesting that they should buy new, expensive ones. It seems like a lovely magazine, and one can only hope that its success will breed some of the same in other countries.
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thegirlinthetangerinescarf
01/17/09

@Kali Mama: ...and the minority in me wonders how many aboriginal girls have graced the cover...
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
01/17/09

@tessa: And upon hearing that, Imma buy some gift subscriptions for a few teachers' classrooms.
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MissyMcCLung
01/18/09

@thegirlinthetangerinescarf: I can't find a list of the covers but the actual site has lots of aboriginal girls and a huge variation in hair and skin colour.
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SkipToMyLou
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 twig attached by a weird flap of skin.
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ILiketheWord'Pugilist'
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
May I just throw this out there, Jezebel, I would like to see Hortense do more writing, please? During the week, weekends, 24/7?
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drinkyrose
01/17/09

@captainolimar: I'll second that! Hortense is rapidly becoming my favorite Jezebel.
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Yes_Tim_Gunn
01/17/09

@rose0red: thirding on the hortense love!
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Hana Maru
01/18/09

`@captainolimar: Yes, please! I look forward to hortense all week.
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sequined
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 be doing that as effectively as whorish ones.
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lowestformofwit
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 by real people about real experiences. I subscribed after growing out of oldschool American Girl.
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funnyface
01/17/09

@lowestformofwit: I was a fan of GL. I think it's gotten a little more mainstream than it used to be, but it's still around.
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YourScreenplaySucks
01/17/09

In reply to Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"
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 featuring $500 socks and fascinating profiles of the cast of Twilight.

Sorry, I had a little Sassy-induced PTSD flashback there.
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Ipomoea
01/17/09

@Your Screenplay Sucks: Oh, you just gave me the same flashback. Damn you!

When I worked at the public library in high school, they recycled all issues of magazines that were more than three years old. When they went to get rid of Sassy, I took them all (along with Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Spin). So somewhere I have about a dozen issues of old Sassy. Sometimes I look at them and have a sad.
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