We’re looking for some smart young women to join our teen editorial collective. The collective serves as an editorial advisory board for the magazine. We get together a few times a year to talk about Shameless, magazines, school, life and other issues that the group is interested in.

The collective is a way for young women in Toronto to connect with each other, share ideas and projects and contribute to the magazine. The only requirements are:

- you must be of high-school age

- you must live in the Greater Toronto Area and be able to attend irregular meetings downtown (sorry to all you non-Torontonians!)

Please send the answers to the following questions to submit@shamelessmag.com, with Editorial Collective in the subject line.

1) Tell us your name, age, school and grade.

2) What makes you shameless?

3) Tell us about the woman who inspires you most.

4) Give us feedback on the section of Shameless you love or hate most.

DEADLINE: Dec 15. We’ll let you know in January if you’ve been selected.

Check out Guardian writer Zoe Williams’ take on the London Underground’s leaflet, Tube* Tips For Women, in the paper’s weekend magazine.

Williams tears into the silly, patronizing government-issued tips, which include doozies like this one: “Things like twisted ankles can be a real pain so mind your step - especially if you’re wearing your party shoes.”

In Shameless’ Fall issue, Jennifer Goldberg wrote about the Tokyo Metropolitan Subway in Japan, which now offers women-only cars to try put a stop to the subway’s chronic groping problem. It’s one thing to offer safe spaces for women, she argues, but to decorate the cars in pink is irritating and insulting, just like many of the Tube Tips for women. Good thing Williams can make us laugh about it.

* The subway system in London is nicknamed The Tube.

Chief Glamazon Nathalie-Roze Fischer brings us:

Crafternoon Tea

Saturday, November 19

Bellefair United Church

2002 Queen Street East, in the beautiful Toronto Beaches area, across from Kew Gardens

The event is “a hip craft & fashion market, how-to hive and charity tea room all in one”.

This event is perfect timing for the upcoming gift-giving season, to give gifts to your loved ones or just to yourself! Or, if you feel like DIY, take in one of the how-to workshops.

And what better way than to come out and support a great charity, because all funds raised go to the Red Door Family Shelter.

Admission is by donation - please bring art supplies, toiletries, or cash ($2) for targeted charities.

For more information, go to www.nathalie-roze.com

Shameless is given a big thumb’s up in the latest Bitch (No.30) by Lea Zeltserman — we’re included in the issue’s “Bitchlist: an annotated guide to some of our favorite things.”

Here’s an excerpt:

“It’s time to stop bemoaning the demise of Sassy — the next generation finally has a magazine to get hot and bothered about. Guided by its teen editorial collective, Shameless (“for girls who get it”) talks sex and food straight up, offers local and international news about women, and manages to slip both sewing and bike mechanics between the covers.”

Thanks, Bitch!