Rep. Matt Gaetz tried to body shame a 19-year-old abortion rights activist. In the 48 hours since,
@0liviajulianna
has raised over $168,000 for abortion funds.
@TeenVogue
Take COVID tests before you go see your families!
Just tested positive ~4 hours before I was supposed to leave to see mine.
(ALSO I HATE THIS FCKN VIRUS)
A rural Maine school board tried to eliminate a policy protecting trans students
200+ ppl came to a meeting to speak out against the move
The board still nixed the policy, but the town rallied together to unseat the members + install a progressive majority
It’s cool how the president tells the truth so infrequently that when he says he got the disease causing a global pandemic people are speculating if he’s telling the truth or has an angle
As soon as
@MaxwellFrostFL
won his primary, we knew he'd be the perfect person for a
@TeenVogue
cover. Excited to share a project months in the making!
We spent some time in Orlando w/Frost, going deep on what it means to be The First Gen Zer in Congress
"Whenever someone resorts to body shaming in an argument it's because they can’t intellectually and factually get their point across,"
@0liviajulianna
tells
@fortesalatifi
NEW: In leaked Discord chats, field director for GOP Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he has “more compassion for dogs than illegals,” uses the n-word freely and claims his “whole political ideology revolves around harming journalists"
Also love that
@0liviajulianna
says she got her confidence + comeback skills from watching WWE!
"I had years of watching storylines taking on authority figures or 'bad guys.' It made me develop a quick wit to respond in this situation."
UPDATED TWEET re: new details on Cohen subpoena in Trump Foundation probe
-Cuomo official clarified it's being led by Tax Dept, other state agencies ~could~ get involved
-They're working w/Manhattan DA & NY AG's office
Just editing story after story of young people losing jobs, incomes, hope for their future and getting mad (again) at everyone who has ever said "omg Teen Vogue covers POLITICS now." Teens give a shit about the world imploding around them!!!!
The convention speeches about the soul of our nation, 538's new election forecaster, Biden's slight lead in the polls, this growing sense that Dems have got it in the bag cause surely everyone can see the damage Trump has caused...I have serious 2016 flashbacks
"I think what he was expecting was for me to fall into an outrage cycle and he wanted me to be like, “This is horrendous, you’re evil, you should be canceled.”...I don’t think he expected for me to respond in the way that I did—to fundraise for abortions."
Also implicated in court documents for Michael Cohen
-The Trump Organization & two unnamed executives there
-American Media Inc., CEO David Pecker, the National Enquirer, & mag's EIC
-"One or more members" of the Trump campaign
Feeling grateful to work at a publication where we can say people deserve the right to an abortion.
It's dehumanizing to have to pretend to be neutral on issues that intimately affect our lives. It's outdated to think that you need to do so in order to do "Real Journalism."
.
@MaxwellFrostFL
has fought for gun control, abortion access + voting rights.
Last night, he won his Florida congressional primary.
As Frost tells
@leximcmenamin
, to win "the world we deserve," we have to push for "all the things, all the time":
Hi! IYCMI,
@TeenVogue
is running an ongoing series called Fear and Learning in America about what it's like to go back to school during the apocalypse. Here are some of the stories we've run so far:
“At the end of the day, whether I sit at home or I’m on the front lines, I could be killed just for the color of my skin,”
@nupol_justice
, 19, says. “If anything were to happen to me, I would want it to be for righteous cause.”
@TeenVogue
Since we’re always being accused of indoctrinating the teenz anyway, we went ahead and did a whole socialism package. First up, for May Day, we have this explainer on what democratic socialism is and is not
@TeenVogue
Still reeling from this Incredibly Bad Week for Media, but if you got laid off bc this industry is trash, I have a freelance budget for the time being! Pitch me at allegra_kirkland
@condenast
.com on anything young people interested in politics would be into!
"If half your class is absent and half your teachers are sick and your friend is in the hospital and your aunt has COVID and you don’t want to eat in school because you don’t want to take your mask off, is learning really happening in those conditions?"
After clearing the plates left by a large party, one of the diners informed Bailey that his Invisalign had been thrown away in a napkin. He made her dig through the trash for 30 mins. The table's tab was $550. They left her $0.
@saruhli
@TeenVogue
GOOD MORNING! Our November cover stars are the incomparable
@IlhanMN
&
@israhirsi
, some of the only people I want to hear from 1 week out from Election Day 2020. Check out
@SafyHallanFarah
's joint profile here:
@teenvogue
The US Attorney in NC's Eastern District was tipped off about the absentee ballot fraud scheme in
#NC09
in 2017. He's focused instead on rooting out extremely rare, usually mistaken instances of non-citizen voting. My story on Bobby Higdon:
Spoke to
@staceyabrams
back in January about her work to turn Georgia blue and expand access to political power: "Fundamentally for me, this isn't about politics; this is about lives.”
@TeenVogue
20 years ago today, the US brought its first prisoners to Guantánamo. We're spending $500M/year to run the facility, where 39 prisoners remain. As
@IlhanMN
writes, "Their ongoing detention goes against the most basic standards of justice"
@CVTorg
@amnesty
Proud as hell that
@GrimKim
writes for
@TeenVogue
(and files smart, clean stories that make my job easy). Any publication that decides not to work with her bc they just found out she has political views is losing out.
📢💫 🗳️
@TeenVogue
is looking for student journalists attending college in NV, FL, MI, WI, AZ, GA and PA to be our 2024 election correspondents! Learn more and apply here: 🗳️💫📢
Deadline is Fri July 7!
You can send Qs to teenvogue2024project
@gmail
.com
"I feel sick with anxiety."
"I had a panic attack on the bus on the way home."
@mary__retta
spoke to students who fear punishment for documenting unsafe conditions at their schools
@TeenVogue
Just dropping in to say student journalists are journalists, and young people were at the forefront of most of the major social movements of the past few decades (and, ya know, much of the 20th century)
Cue the old ~personal news~ dance: I’m so excited to share that after 4 years and 2 months
@TPM
, I’m heading over to
@TeenVogue
next week to become their politics editor!
Sorry to keep being so depressing On Here but it’s just staggering to think of the mass trauma people have experienced this year — unemployment, deaths, illness, evictions, homes lost to wildfires, hunger. So many people are hurting.
A Florida House committee just passed a bill that ~dramatically~ undermines voter-approved ballot amendment restoring the franchise to former felons. Those too poor to pay off fines would effectively be unable to get their voting rights back
"I’m an organizer, and I believe we need more organizers in Congress, folks who come from this world," 25-year-old Florida congressional nominee
@MaxwellFrostFL
says.
"I mean, I’m a working-class person. I Uber five nights a week so I can pay my bills."
Facebook announced it is (finally) pulling its QAnon pages and groups. But so much damage has already been done.
@fortesalatifi
talked to young people who've lost their parents to the conspiracy theory.
@TeenVogue
.
@AyannaPressley
introduced an HR1 amendment to lower the federal voting age to 16 — because, as she said, people that age are deeply politically engaged and just as deserving of this right
The Kerner Commission of 1968 found that riots were caused by
-police brutality and militarization
-white racism
-poverty
-an unequal justice system
@meelanash
@TeenVogue
Healthcare workers in NYC have been going through hell.
@HannaWallis
spoke to 5 of them about needing more than compliments and applause. “I don't want to be called a hero and die a hero because I lost my life to this because they failed us."
@TeenVogue
.
@MeetMckayla
, 29, is running a primary challenge against Rep. Steny Hoyer, who has held his seat since 1981. She wants an end to a political system that is "regular people vs the powerful corporations & the politicians they buy."
@TeenVogue
@MalaikaJabali
100 years ago, the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. But so many women of color remained — and remain — disenfranchised, and have been written out of this history. Our August cover is about them:
@TeenVogue
.
@JCisnerosTX
lost her 2020 primary against anti-abortion Rep. Henry Cuellar by fewer than 3,000 votes.
In 2022, Cisneros is hoping for a win. "I owed it to the folks here to try it one more time."
@AmandaBecker
Cody Wilson, founder of 3-D printed gun company Defense Distributed, was charged w/child sexual assault by authorities in Austin today. Wilson also founded Hatreon, a Patreon alternative for the far-right. I talked to him about it after Charlottesville.
Morning! I spent ~3 months working on this story about the surprisingly promising campaign to restore the franchise to some 1.4 million Floridians with felony convictions. Would be so grateful if you read it.
16-yr-old Gillian Sullivan's Tik Tok calling for students to strike in solidarity w/their teachers went viral. Then her Nevada school district reached a deal with the teacher's union.
Here's what she told
@SatansJacuzzi
:
VERY COOL JOB OPP:
@EconomicSecProj
is funding a 1-year reporting position at
@TeenVogue
focused on all the ways young people are being affected by the COVID recession. It's very well paid & fully remote & you'll have tons of flexibility & autonomy
Kavanaugh: "Renate Alumnus" reference in our yearbooks was "not related to sex" with Renate Schroeder
Georgetown Prep student Michael Walsh's yearbook: “You need a date / and it’s getting late / so don’t hesitate / to call Renate.”
Last night, Scott called for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate “rampant fraud” in his U.S. Senate race. But the FDLE says there are no voter fraud allegations to look into and that Scott made no formal request for an investigation.
📢 📢The incomparable
@Rainesford
is starting a careers advice column for
@TeenVogue
! Send your questions about figuring out what you wanna do, finding a job, salaries, work/life balance, burnout, unions + more to TVWorkinProgress
@gmail
.com 📢📢
Jackson Reffitt, 19, reported his dad to the FBI for joining the January 6th Capitol riot. A year later, he lives away from his family and rarely speaks to them. When he does talk to his mom, she calls him “the Gestapo.”
As
@Imani_Barbarin
says, COVID made people more aware of ableism, but so many disabled lives "were lost because we politicized a virus unnecessarily." And the pandemic itself was a mass disabling event, leaving millions w/long COVID.
"They are us now."
In
@TeenVogue
, Minneapolis Public School Board director
@JoshPauly
urges other school districts to cut ties w/police: "We cannot partner with organizations that do not see the humanity in our students. We cannot be neutral in situations of injustice."
Until Black people can "run, walk, swim, play, nap, drive, rest, shop, work, bank, laugh, and vacation without fear of harassment, accusation, or bodily violence — until Black people can live — we will never unroot systemic racism." -
@hyphenatedprof
As
@FaithfullyBP
writes, "Queer students in my small town saw neighbors who were willing to fight for their ability to thrive. Trans rights aren’t a 'big-city' issue; they’re woven into the fabric of every community."
We're coming to the end of another turbulent, draining year. But I'm really proud of the stories
@teenvogue
put out despite...well, everything.
Hard to narrow it down, but sharing just a few favorites from our brilliant columnists + contributors ⤵️
A little bit of ~personal news~ to share. Starting today, I'll be a senior editor in
@TPM
's New York office helping to lead our wonderful team here. Will still be writing (especially in the short term) so please keep reaching out with tips, suggestions, etc!
The Trump administration is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
@MaiaWikler
went to Alaska to profile the 18-year-old activist fighting to protect the land her tribe has lived on for centuries:
@TeenVogue
#CCNow
The 19th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago today. ICYMI,
@TeenVogue
's August cover was about all the women of color left uncounted after that amendment passed, their fight for representation, and why telling people to "just vote" isn't nearly enough.
Students covering the campus protests are pulling all-nighters, watching their peers get arrested and tear-gassed, and even getting assaulted on the job.
The 2022 midterms aren't over but wanted to take a sec to share some of the work the
@TeenVogue
team did this cycle. We didn't ~know~ how results would go + try to avoid horseracey coverage of The Narrative. But we heard the same things from young people consistently ⤵️
.
@CoriBush
is one of the most visible progressive voices on Capitol Hill, pushing for student debt forgiveness + arguing for the protest rights of young pro-Palestine demonstrators
AIPAC has spent $8M+ on her 8/6 primary race, which is looking very close
Sanders got 72% of all under the age of 30 in California, & he got 62% of all under the age of 45.
He won 55% among Hispanics, to 21% for Biden. Among white respondents, it's 33-23 Sanders; among African Americans, it's 38-18 Biden.
"We are past Mayor Frey’s crocodile tears, his false promises, and his failed leadership. We are past his toothless reforms to" the Minneapolis Police Department,
@robin4mpls
writes in this oped calling for Frey's resignation
Thrilled that the wonderful
@leximcmenamin
is joining
@TeenVogue
full time as News + Politics Editor! Lexi is a longtime contributor who is bright, enthusiastic, conscientious + always building up fellow writers (especially thru mentoring work w/the
@zenithcoop
)
Clark brothers were born to Mormon parents & bounced around the country before winding up in DC. Jeff Clark finished HS but failed to find a foothold in adult life. He told white nationalist podcast he was radicalized by Ferguson protests, Trump's election
Goodbye to my last grandparent, an exceptionally decent and loving Alabama turned North Carolina guy who ran a children’s home and loved kids and the woods and my grandma who he met at 13 and was just sweet, goofy and smart as all hell. We love you and this is all just so hard.
This debate was not fun to watch but gchatting with the Teen Vote committee saved my brain:
"let’s revolt plz"
"Sir, I am GRADUATING IN A RECESSION IN A PANDEMIC"
"The xenophobic language JUMPING out"
"the bar is in hell"
@TeenVogue
.
@StrikeDebt
and 50+ other orgs + unions are holding a day of action in front of the Dept of Education today urging Biden to cancel student debt thru executive order.
"This doesn't require some lengthy, bureaucratic process. It can actually disappear.”
.
@keaux_
wrote about what happened when
@scalawagmag
gave its entire staff a full paid month off.
For 30 days, they "paused meetings, let Slack exchanges go quiet, and automated our social media content."