A week after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Jasmine Zelaya’s “Sad Girls,” at Art League Houston, struck a timely chord with me. Zelaya is showing bold new works that respond to the fears ...

Like many other women my age, I have lain out in anguish singing along to Mazzy Star and Fiona Apple. I’ve annotated “Prozac Nation” like it’s a diary, and I still have a photo of Joan Didion taped ...

Adele’s first single “Easy on Me” in six years just dropped, yet for some reason, many of us are expected to keep working and living as normal today. One thing is clear: With the combination of ...

In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending. ‘Sad’ feels overly ...

Is This It? examines the current state of rock music through a modern-day lens, highlighting the artists, perspectives and sounds that have kept the genre and its dedication to counter-culture alive.

This week, Indy news intern Caitlin Scialla joins us in the bookish fun to bring us some recommendations from the “sad girl” subculture that’s been enjoying a wave of popularity. This kind of thing is ...

Pumpkin lattes, knitted sweaters and sobbing while listening to Phoebe Bridgers? Hot Girl Summer’s gloomy older sister, Sad Girl Autumn, is upon us. Coined in 2019 as an antithesis to “Hot Girl Summer ...