Whitney Joiner is an editor at Seventeen magazine and a frequent contributor to Salon.

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Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 04:30 EDT

Not quite Americans

Sexual assault, enslavement, no medical care -- Peter Orner, author of an oral history of illegal immigrants, discusses the nightmares experienced by this vulnerable population.
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 07:17 EST

Dive-bar dharma

To attract a new generation of Buddhists, two teachers are replacing the old hippie trappings with a tattooed aesthetic and references to Jay-Z.
Tuesday, Jun 20, 2006 04:50 EDT

Live girl-on-girl action!

Girls making out with each other to turn on guys is the latest craze at high school and college parties. Is this sexual liberation, or regression?
Monday, Oct 18, 2004 12:27 EDT

The gloom and doom canon

A new book argues that young adult novels are too dark. But should kids be sheltered from the real world?
Tuesday, Aug 31, 2004 13:16 EDT

It girl gone wild

Abigail Vona's stealing and lying led to a stint in a teen delinquent boot camp. Now 20, she's written a memoir about her experience -- and landed in the gossip pages.
Monday, Aug 16, 2004 12:27 EDT

Sex, lies and the "down low"

Bestselling author J.L. King is the new public face of a not-so-new phenomenon -- "straight" black men who secretly sleep with men. Is he a savior to black women worried about HIV -- or a self-promoter fanning fears of a bisexual black bogeyman?
Monday, Feb 2, 2004 17:34 EST

One strike and you're out of school

Youthful suicides, financial ruin, families torn apart for minor infractions: How post-Columbine hysteria is wrecking lives.
Thursday, Dec 4, 2003 13:38 EST

Here comes the (freaked out) bride

Author and therapist Sheryl Paul explains why wedding planning turns some people into quivering messes.
Monday, Oct 27, 2003 10:51 EST

My pseu-called life

"Zoe Trope," the 17-year-old author of "Please Don't Kill the Freshman," received a huge advance to write a diary of her angsty and erotically charged high school days.
Friday, Oct 17, 2003 15:01 EDT

The Army be thuggin' it

The military is teaming up with hip-hop bible the Source to recruit black urban kids with pimped-out Hummers and off-da-hook merchandise.
Friday, Sep 5, 2003 14:38 EDT

"Melodramatic representations of teenagers always bother me"

Three girls talk about the riveting, angsty movie "Thirteen" -- how they related to it, what seemed realistic, and what made them mad.
Monday, Jun 23, 2003 12:16 EDT

The beard, the breasts and the bulge

Kingdom Come, a touring troupe of five of America's most famous drag kings -- complete with strap-ons, leather and one hell of an homage to George Michael -- are taking their act down South.
Saturday, Mar 15, 2003 16:26 EST

Not your mother's comic book

In her brilliant new novel "Diary of a Teenage Girl," Phoebe Gloeckner's heroine (and alter ego) falls in love with a lesbian junkie, shoots speed and has an affair with her mother's boyfriend.

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