celebrities
While my peers swooned over the New Kids, I was wondering just how to go about contacting James Caan -- in my pants.
racism
Everything. Everything is wrong with it. Please, somebody post kitten pictures in comments? PLEASE. I AM BEGGING YOU.
entertainment
When I heard, I cried. Right away, I cried, without even fully understanding what I was crying for.
shoppables
michelle shocked
xoJane asked Margaret Cho to shed some positive light on the Michelle Shocked controversy by talking about what an honor and a privilege having a large queer fanbase truly is.
rap
When this article was first conceived, I intended to make the argument that my love for rap is pure and therefore should be allowed to thrive unchallenged.
music
if you actually LIKE The Wiggles for real, then I guess that’s fine. That said, I maintain that you don’t need that shit.
tv
On "Catfish," I saw a cute love story. The hosts saw a freak show and let their millions of viewers know it.
lena dunham
You'd think Dunham's character had won the lottery and transplanted the entire gang to Hawaii, not spent a couple of days banging a hot stranger
entertainment
lisa lampanelli
The "queen of mean" dishes like she's never done before to xoJane on being an addict. To food and dudes.
frames
I do not have an incredible story about how I received the onesie signed by Feist.
Leah Fitzgerald in

Dec 28, 2012 at 11:30am | 16 comments

lady gaga
After working so indefatigably as a professional artist and advocate while remaining steadfastly recovered from an eating disorder, the biggest pop star on earth honored my efforts and shared my art with her 32 million Twitter fans.
entertainment
I’ll cut to the chase. I am a committed, lifelong feminist, women's advocate, and in the interest of full-disclosure, I’ve been hit by an intimate partner, too. But there’s no denying it: I am really, really, really mad at Rihanna.
pop star
I’m 36 years old now, at least 20 years older than the average new artist. I don’t think it’s premature or needlessly pessimistic to say it’s definite that I am not going to be a star.
fat
Yes, there are some fat women in some media sometimes. But hasn't that always been the case? I'm sharing my top five fat-lady media role models.
Lesley in

Oct 11, 2012 at 2:30pm | 160 comments

andrea linett
entertainment
Today, Theo is all about gorgeous skin, cheekbones, a sleek cat's eye and fantastic lip gloss.
body politics
Naked Amanda Palmer has replaced Naked Erykah Badu in a fiercely controversy-generating Flaming Lips video. And the whole thing is making me really uncomfortable.
beach books
I didn’t plan to be a chick lit writer or a commercial writer or any specific kind of a writer. I just wanted to write. And I was writing. I was getting paid to write
drama
While most other little girls dreamt about fairytale like wedding where they are a princess and whatever, I dreamt about throwing dishes at my lover’s head and threatening to leave him for my boss
entertainment