In 1994, she debuted as a solo artist under the stage name Odes with the song "Meltaway", later releasing the extended play Me and My Big Mouth (1996).
Following her work on Gurl.com, Odes co-wrote the book From the Hips: A Comprehensive, Open-Minded, Uncensored, Totally Honest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Becoming a Parent (2007).
[5] Odes attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to study painting,[2][3] but she dropped out due to her activities with Love Child.
[2] On June 20, 1994, Odes (under her last name only) released "Meltaway" as a 7-inch vinyl single through Merge Records, with "Honey Gets Hard" as its B-side.
[7][11][4] While they were graduate students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, they, along with classmate Heather McDonald, decided to form a female-positive online space aimed at teenagers, as the Internet lacked communities for girls in the 1990s.
[14] Throughout the years of working on Gurl.com, Odes, Drill, and McDonald released three books based on the content of their website through a partnership with Scholastic.
A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL, was released on September 1, 1999,[7][12] becoming a national bestseller and selling 100,000 copies in the United States by January 2000.
[22] In 2018, Odes co-founded CherryPicks, a review aggregator website for female and non-binary content, with Miranda Bailey.