The term New Romantic refers to music, fashion, and the general lifestyle that was the ’80s-glamour counterpoint to punk that first emerged at the very end of the ’70s and continued throughout the ne...
Steven Patrick Morrissey, age 13. Illustrations on and manipulations of all these photos by Hattie. Morrissey is a mythological creature, one we may never really know. We do know that he was the lead...
Illustration by Dylan Your first job can be an exciting and nerve-wracking endeavor. Responsibility! Life skills! Character building! All those other buzzwords that you pretend to care about when ear...
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) This is one of those movies that you’ll want to watch over and over again and you’ll never get tired of it. Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta, a rich, bored New Jersey h...
I am a bath freak. I take baths at least once a week (sometimes I come home from college JUST TO TAKE BATHS) and it’s always a big deal of candles, incense, bath salts, classical music, face masks, h...
Collage by Beth When I was in the eighth grade, at a school in a suburb of Boston, a kid named Brad moved to our town. It was halfway through the year, and most of our grade had known one another for...
"FOR DONNA" by Minna Dylan Do you ever wonder when adolescence ends? Read More » Naomi I am already looking back at this year so far and seeing all that I have done, every test of my streng...
Illustration by Cynthia One day when I was 11 years old, I came home from school, looked my dad in the eye, threw down my backpack, and announced, “I am DONE being good.” I don’t remember saying this...
With summer around the corner, it’s time for my most dreaded shopping task: swimsuit shopping. All my friends like to show off their bods in bikinis, but I’m not really into wearing them. How can I l...
These days everyone goes on and on about mixing high fashion with vintage and mass-market clothes, but it was not always this way. Fashion used to be a pretty top-down thing: fashion magazines showed...
Illustration by Marjainez Sheila was the older sister of Julian, one of my hockey teammates. We met after a school football game during my sophomore year of high school. She had jet-black hair and ol...
Illustration by Kelly The jobs available to teenagers seem designed to make you feel powerless. Mechanically stuffing groceries into plastic bags. Serving food. Serving food while wearing a stupid ha...
The 1980s were an adventurous time for eye makeup. Take two of our favorite pop-punk princesses of the era, Siouxsie Sioux (of Siouxsie and the Banshees) and Bow Wow Wow’s Annabella Lwin. They both g...
Illustration by Emma D. Here’s an unexciting secret: the Rookie staff has a hidden Facebook group wherein we discuss themes and ideas and assignments. We also go there to chat and gossip and joke aro...
Did you see Allison Reynolds in detention the other day? She was totally weird. She didn’t talk to anyone at all and she ate a sandwich made of Pixy Stix and cereal! I don’t think she was...
You know when you’re going on a trip, and you’re soooooo excited, and you sit down and make list after detailed list of every item you’re going to have to pack? And you mentally arrange your suitcase...
Illustration by Cynthia One hot July morning when I was nine, my mom cleared her throat at the breakfast table. There was going to be some construction on our house, she said, and she wanted to let m...
Election Tom Perrotta 1998, Berkley Books The three suburban kids in Tom Perrotta’s Election want to be president of Winwood High for very different reasons. Seemingly perfect Tracy is driven by raw ...
Image via David MacDowell Sixteen Candles is my favorite movie of all time. I was 14 when it came out, and I went to see it with my mom and my best friend Jaime at the local cineplex in Bremerton, Wa...
Illustration by Cynthia One Friday night years ago, I was sitting in a stall in the ladies’ room at the ad agency I worked at, and I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation between two girls...
What's on your mind, Minna? Dylan I’m a summer crusader, a SUNSHINE CHAMPION, and finally, my time has come. Read More » Naomi Last week I went on “holiday” for the first time in around three ye...
I’ve combined this month’s theme‘s love of roses—and in this case, GIRL POWER—with my own love of brooches to create this DIY for a flowery feminist badge. It’s way more in-yo...
Something really bad happened to me when I was eight or nine. I’m 17 today, and I don’t know what to do. Nobody around me knows that this thing happened. I know it would destroy my parents if I told ...
When I fell prey to that horror of adolescence—orthodontia& #8212;there was only one glittering silver lining. I don’t mean those awful, colored rubber bands, the tiny markers of a season (red a...
Collage by Megan, who sent us this on a crafting whim. Every day Megan and Aisling (pronounced Ash-ling), both 18, drive an hour and a half from Perth to the University of Western Australia together,...
RuPaul photographed by Chantal Regnault via Scab In the late ’80s and early ’90s, the ballroom scene was one of New York’s most vibrant subcultures. Balls were extravagantly creative pageants where p...
OK, here’s the thing about Her Madgesty, and I’m going to be straight with you: I don’t love the Madonna of today. I tolerate her the way I might tolerate a beloved friend from kindergarten who becam...
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