Hello and welcome! The Hairpin is a women's website edited by Edith Zimmerman and Jane Marie. A hairpin is also a small tool for keeping your hair in place, and a kind of dramatic turn. For more information on those hairpins, stay on this page or slowly click through our entire archive — there's surely something back there to answer your questions.

More about us: The Hairpin is a general-interest blog, meaning we'll be linking to the stories of the day that appeal to us, and is a women's site insofar as it is run by women, will feature writing by women (although guys should absolutely feel free to get in touch, too), and will be mostly read by women. In addition to commentary on the day's offerings, we'll feature original content from our contributors, in the form of text, video, illustration, and maybe even media that hasn't been invented yet. If you'd like to submit original, unpublished content, please do (submissions@thehairpin.com)! Send us a detailed outline or draft of what you'd like to write, either as a Word document or in the body of an email (1,000 words is a good maximum to aim for), and we'll be in touch if we'd like to run it.

Even more about us, in the abstract: You know how having cocktails at a friend’s house can sometimes be more fun than the Big Party you go to afterward? And not because the Big Party isn’t fun, but just because hanging out with select lady friends is sometimes unbeatable? This site hopes to be a little like that — a low-key cocktail party among select female friends. Imagine like we’re pouring you a drink. That you can’t actually drink, because it is inside the computer.

For advertising and other business-related inquires, please contact The Hairpin’s publisher, John Shankman, at advertise@thehairpin.com.

Thanks for reading.