The sad girl has the time to lay around in bed being dissatisfied, while most of us have to get our asses to work while being dissatisfied. It’s easy not to like her.

Sad girls, you see, seek out other sad girls to join an unspoken sad girl club. I am a walking ode to being emo – and proud of it.

In 2014, Audrey Wollen, a writer and artist, posted her “ Sad Girl Theory ” to Instagram, a JPEG manifesto that crystallized a very online subculture of despondent femininity that had been ...

Sad Girl Lit Wouldn’t Exist Without Susanna Kaysen The author reflects on the legacy of Girl, Interrupted, 30 years after it was first published.