A Brief Introduction

Hello, The Hairpin. I’m Emma, your new editor. Today is the first day that I will be running the site; Edith is sticking around for a bit to show me how to press buttons. After that, as we discussed last week, she’ll be around less often, and we here will go forward, boldly and seamlessly into the future.

Things shouldn’t change too drastically here. I wanted to edit The Hairpin because, like most of you, I’ve loved reading it for the past two and a half years. You’ll see familiar writers and stories, and you’ll see new writers and new stories. I hope that The Hairpin remains a site where, after seeing Spring Breakers for the first or third time, you can find a perspective that speaks to or challenges your own reception of the film, engage with it in some way, and then find a link to a study of sock bacteria, or whatever. Expect intelligence and irreverence in equal measure.

Or expect nothing at all. That would make my job easier.

I’m coming to you from Gawker Media, where I worked for two and a half years at both Deadspin and Gawker. At Deadspin I wrote often about basketball, Serena Williams, sneakers, and dance crazes; at Gawker I edited and wrote a little bit about the rapper Iggy Azalea and female journalists. I’ve written elsewhere about Nicki Minaj, Kim Kardashian, and Brittney Griner. I grew up in Brattleboro, Vermont, and I graduated from Vassar College in 2010. I once interviewed the Jonas Brothers.

As I get started here, I’m eager to hear your ideas and feedback and pitches and suggestions. Please email me or tweet at me or talk to me in the comments below.