The Hairpin

The Hairpin was a women's website in The Awl network. It was founded in 2010 by Edith Zimmerman. It ceased publication at the end of January 2018.
From 2013 to 2014, "The Hairpin" was edited by Emma Carmichael, with Jia Tolentino as contributing editor. Haley Mlotek was editor at "The Hairpin" from 2014 to 2015, with Jazmine Hughes as contributing editor, followed by Alexandra Molotkow. The site went on hiatus briefly but was revived in 2016 when Sylvia Killingsworth left "The New Yorker" to become editor of both The Awl and The Hairpin.
Carmichael described her role as the first new editor at "The Hairpin" after Zimmerman stepped down in 2013 as "really hard; Edith created a perfectly formed product in "The Hairpin" and her voice was..."The Hairpin"".
"The Hairpin" had been home to several recurring features including Jia Tolentino's "Interview With a Virgin", Jolie Kerr's "Ask A Clean Person", former "This American Life" producer Jane Marie's makeup tutorial series "How To Be A Girl" and Lindsay King-Miller's advice column "Ask A Queer Chick".
Glen Weldon discussed the demise of "The Hairpin" as being in response to the decline in advertisement-driven website revenue, making a difficult situation for independent publishers.