• Express Yourself

    • Visual Arts: Spring 2022

      Visual Arts: Spring 2022

      We love receiving your visual art submissions, NOLA girls! Y’all are seriously talented. If you want your visual art to be featured in Geaux Girl!, click the Get Published in Geaux Girl! link and file out the submission form.Confident Stance by Laila James (17),...

    • Longing

      Longing

      there’s an outstretched hand where my heart should bewould beif you hadn’t held it for so longonly to let go so suddenlyit still holds on to the ghost of your handcurls into the echo of your fingersi wish i could mold it intosomething less reminiscent of youAutumn...

    • Be Well

    • Yoga Power

      Yoga Power

      yoga power Why teens are turning into yogis. “Yoga teaches young people how to be the ‘boss’ of their own body, quiet their mind, and trust themselves.”Laurie Azzano, owner of Lolo’s Youth StudioLET’S FACE IT: Being a teenager isn’t easy. That’s why teens across the...

    • The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

      The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

      A good chocolate chip cookie is one of those texturally perfect joys: crispy, caramelized edges giving way to gooey-chewy centers. Despite its relatively short and humble ingredient list, different versions of “the best” chocolate chip cookie abound on the internet....

    • Social Anxiety

      Social Anxiety

      Arya loved going to school. She had lots of friends and was getting okay grades. She was on the tennis team and enjoyed practice and matches. On the weekends, she would hang out with friends at parties or sleepovers. Arya noticed that when making plans with her...

    • Teen-Friendly NOLA Clinics Spring-Summer 2023

      Teen-Friendly NOLA Clinics Spring-Summer 2023

      Teen-Friendly NOLA ClinicsClinics that serve adolescents usually focus on the reproductive health needs of adolescents and young adults but may also provide primary care services. The ages served vary depending on the clinic, but they usually include preteens (11 or...

    • Have Fun

    • The Day You Were Born

      The Day You Were Born

      You probably know your zodiac sign based on your birthday, but have you ever considered that your “birth day of the week” also matters? The days of the week are all attributed to specific planets, and in astrology, each sun sign also has a ruling planet. Considering...

    • Spa Sleepover

      Spa Sleepover

      Do you love getting pampered and spending quality time with your friends? Well, have a spa sleepover this summer! We asked our beauty experts, Brittani and Zari, to show a group of girls some super easy DIY spa ideas that will leave you feeling beautiful inside and...

    • Mask Up!

      Mask Up!

      The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world as we know it. Our city, once packed with tourists and second lines, now feels empty and quiet. As our city is opening back up, you might also see something else change. Wherever you go these days, everyone is wearing a...

    • Program Spotlight: Community Sailing New Orleans

      Program Spotlight: Community Sailing New Orleans

      Community Sailing New Orleans (CSNO) provides accessible, low- and no-cost sailing lessons on Lake Pontchartrain for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. That means you can walk in with no sailing experience and still be welcome to learn and will be...

    • Program Spotlight: ricRACK

      Program Spotlight: ricRACK

      ABOUT ricRACK: ricRACK is part fabric store, part thrift store, and part community space that offers sewing classes with a mission to repurpose fabrics and breathe new life into otherwise wasted materials. Since ricRACK opened in 2012, they’ve saved over 7.5 tons of...

    • Expand Your Mind

    • Every Body is Beautiful – Winter 2020

      Every Body is Beautiful – Winter 2020

      Bodies come in all shapes, sizes, skin types and tones, and with different physical abilities. Every body truly is unique. Yet, our world—especially the media—tends to diminish this body diversity and instill in many of us a narrow definition of beauty, making it hard...

    • Tarriona “Tank” Ball

      Tarriona “Tank” Ball

      “People around me need to feel good, and I want to entertain them so they feel those good spirits. I go to Germany, Japan, anywhere, and I feel like I bring New Orleans with me,” Tank Ball, the spirited frontwoman of Tank and the Bangas, told us proudly. Ball’s...

    • College Admissions Insight to Help You Stay Calm

      College Admissions Insight to Help You Stay Calm

      Forget everything you have heard about applying to college (unless it was from your college counselor). A lot of the advice out there about college is full of myths and outdated information. Especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, the college admissions landscape has...

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Category: Writing

Notice to Vacate

Notice to Vacate

TO:All the Men Who’ve Messed with Me STREET ADDRESS:Sidewalks, intersections, office buildings, towers, thrones It has come to my attention that you have failed to comply with the terms of your...
Her Last Dance

Her Last Dance

If moldy bread had a sound, it would be his voice. It had a sticky drawl that made ants creep under my skin, crawling along my veins until I was itching and shivering in my own sour air. Lights...
Take All Our Curves and All Our Edges

Take All Our Curves and All Our Edges

Black is beautiful,black is bold.Black is smart,black is sexy. Black feels love,black feels pain.Black feels celebrated,black feels unnoticed. Black has culture,black has confusion.Black has...
Beautiful Like You

Beautiful Like You

Every Saturday, my best friend, Elaine, and I would meet at Barnes & Noble at exactly 12:30 p.m. and spend the whole afternoon there. Afterwards we would sleep at one or the other’s house,...
Remember Who You Are

Remember Who You Are

Don’t sit like that. Close your legs. Be a lady.Don’t purse your lips. Or pucker them either.Don’t cut your hair. Your hair is your glory.You are my glory. My daughter. You must keep up...
So-Called Good: The State of Popular Media

So-Called Good: The State of Popular Media

I’ve been thinking a lot about the way that nothing feels new anymore. I go to the movie theater at least once a month and I’ve watched film after film with nothing really new to say. Mainstream...