What We’ve Been Up To

So, hopefully you’ve all noticed that the first issue of PaperDolls has been up for almost two weeks now. We worked super hard to get it all up and looking awesome and we’re pretty proud of how it turned out. What was most amazing for me was all of the submissions we got from all [...]

Launch party success!!

The PaperDolls Magazine launch party was a huge success! The bands were awesome, Emily gave three straight hours worth of bang trims and styling advice, and everyone had a great time making their own personalized paper dolls.

The PaperDolls crew wants to give a huge thank you to mother falcon, fourtrack blackjack, the diving captain, [...]

Grrl Action

So yesterday Erin and I went to see the final performance of the Grrl Action summer program and we had such a great time. Grrl action is a program here in Austin run by the Rude Mechanicals that works with teen girls in a three week writing and performance workshop. The girls, age 13 to 16, [...]

The Wind Is Blowing up Here in Chi-Town!

The other day I was sitting outside a coffe shop on Broadway Street in Chicago, reading some PaperDolls submissions I had printed out at a nearby Internet cafe, and I was so struck by the contradictory weather. The violent sun was beating on my legs, burning them, really, but the cool wind whipped across my [...]

First Post!!!

Our new website is up and running! Submissions are rolling in and we at PaperDolls are so excited about the progress of the magazine! This weekend, Jordi, Sofia, and I are on our way to the the National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis, MN to promote the magazine and learn all about the current [...]