Tween Summit Reveals The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright

If you think teens are text-addicted sexters whose brains are being turned to mush thanks to technology and pop music, you didn't attend the Tween Summit on October 10, 2009 in Washington DC. USA Today reports "It's about girl power." More »

I Was A Fake Teenage Witch

The Bush Administration reportedly denied J.K. Rowling a Presidential Medal of Freedom over fears that her Harry Potter series promoted witchcraft. Apparently they weren't aware that many of us, Harry Potter or no, go through our witchcraft phase anyway. More »

Teenage Wasteland: Your Old Diaries Are Awkward, Awe-Inspiring

A month ago, we asked you to send us a page from your old journals. Today, we reveal our submissions, and you get a peek at the secret turmoil that was meant only for the dear diary. More »

Reminder: Send Us A Page From Your Old Diary

Don't forget to send us a page from your old diary! You can send a scan or a photograph, but it should be no smaller than 500 pixels wide. Email it to photos@jezebel.com. More info here.

Child Pageants: American Pasttime Exported Across The Pond

The latest U.S. export to land on foreign shores? Child pageants. The BBC3 documentary Baby Beauty Queens follows contestants in the first-ever Mini Miss UK contest, and, as Eleanor M. blogs for The F word: it's "surely a new low." More »

To Do: Send Us A Page From Your Old Diaries

Last month, Shameless linked to a blog project called The Amy Diary: A Vancouver woman posts her junior high diaries. It's a unique perspective into the mind, lingo and anxieties of young girls. So I dug up my old diaries. More »

You Are 16, Going On 17, Baby, Ignore Those Comments

Last week, the tabloids were filled with breathless speculation over the demise of 16-year-old Miley Cyrus' relationship with her 20-year-old boyfriend, Justin Gaston, and her subsequent "reconnection" with Nick Jonas. Commenters took the opportunity to rip Miley to shreds. More »

CosmoGirl: One Of The Smarter Newsstand Choices For Teens

Today it was announced that CosmoGirl! is folding. Hearst has decided to "consolidate its teen publishing activities into Seventeen," though the CosmoGirl! brand will continue online. Founded by Atoosa Rubenstein in 2000, CosmoGirl! was the smarter, less sex-obsessed little sister of Cosmopolitan. Atoosa supposedly came up with the idea of CosmoGirl! in 48 hours, reportedly scrawling the word "girl" in lipstick over and over on mockup covers while in bed with her husband. (She became the youngest editor-in-chief in Hearst Magazine's 100 year history, but left for Seventeen in 2003.) As for CosmoGirl!, the splashy, colorful magazine managed to cram everything teenage girls really care about inside each issue: More »