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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

14 days

to everyone responding to my reporting with my pronouns or just making fun of my name plus my pronouns, how is telling on yourself going for you

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

TDOV (trans day of vengeance)

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3 years

something that’s fun to witness in real time is who, exactly, “cancel culture” comes for

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6 months

Ballina is Joe Biden’s ancestral hometown in Ireland

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Vandals daub ‘Genocide Joe’ under damaged mural of US President Joe Biden in Ballina

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

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2 years

a great way to thank Comrade Teen Vogue would be to click on and read our articles on our website because these tweets praising our politics go viral maybe every other week but p much never result in increased site traffic! which is a good way to help us keep doing our jobs!

𝕏eͤ✞ꌚe͎n̆̈♨𝕏⊍תּḋᥑy҉҉

@JetsenSunday

2 years

Thank you Comrade Teen Vogue

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

11 months

been seeing that NYT oped about the stratification of free vs. paywalled news so I made a sign to tap

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

9 months

Angus Cloud dying at 25 a week after his dad’s death, Shuhada Sadaqat / Sinead O’Connor a year after her 17 year old son found dead by suicide, we are all subjected to profound loss under systems that make justice impossible, healing inconceivable, may they rest

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@leximcmenamin

9 months

rest in peace, sinead

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@IrishTimes

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Sinead O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56

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@leximcmenamin

1 year

not often that you see courts rule in favor of women survivors, let alone 3 high profile instances in one day, making note for posterity’s sake

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

idk if the hot takes on Amber Heard realize but I would happily publicly list the ppl who have assaulted or abused me in order to prevent others from going through it again, and the only reason I don’t is defamation law—which has been used to silence survivors for years

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

14 days

PSA from Columbia student organizers: please STOP circulating their Venmo, they’ve gotten everyone out and have more money than they know what to do with! Students ask you send those funds to these orgs instead, working on the ground w those on the ground in Gaza

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

Actually, just wanna make real real explicit the stakes of this. Theoretically I could be sued over this piece, in which I anonymously reference being stalked then raped. That's part of why I wrote it: I want you to realize how few options we—I—have.

The Internet Made a Spectacle Out of Abuse

The internet made a spectacle of domestic abuse claims, leaving a despicable landscape for survivors everywhere.

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

23 days

he would run comms for Fetterman

bailey moon

@Baileymoon15

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his twitter would be undefeated

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

18 days

i have been reporting on protests for 5+ years now and this is part and parcel of what we saw coming — the inevitable result of Democrats and Republicans alike demonizing, prosecuting, and permitting assaults on left/progressive protesters from 2020 onwards

Vox

@voxdotcom

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The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

when Netflix was hiring, i was recruited. had to sign an NDA for a first interview. i withdrew from the process not bc of my principles—tho as a trans person i couldn’t help but notice that they were recruiting POC/LBGTQ writers post-Chappelle—but bc i was lucky to get a dif job.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

1 year

BREAKING: New School students announced a 24/7 indefinite occupation of the university student center in solidarity with striking faculty. story @TeenVogue

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 months

and fwiw when I was in Derry in 2022 i saw so many references to Palestine

jerry maguire but a girl

@bartsytruther

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derry for palestine

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

14 days

yes, Columbia evicted students last night, 2wks after Vanderbilt did the same. they arrested students for “trespassing” on the campus they pay tuition at, a strategy we’ve seen at other schools including Pomona. this is what the strategy on Palestine campus suppression *has been*

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

3 years

okay, let’s have a little lesson in police propaganda🧵 on Monday, the New York Times repeated Philly PD that riders on the El ignored a woman being raped. 4 days later, the Delaware Cty DA had to correct the story: “That is simply not true. It did not happen.”

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

6 months

they’ve only been out there a few hours. there’s just nothing that calls for tear-gas at 10 am when kids are certainly present. this is exactly why protesters facing felony charges in Florida say to keep an eye on Atlanta. the repression of #StopCopCity impacts all of us

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ATLANTA COPS LAUNCHING ROUNDS AND ROUNDS OF TEAR GAS

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 months

25-year-old Aaron Bushnell self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last Sunday. since then, his final words were censored, his life reduced to discourse about “mental illness” over his act of protest. I wrote what we know about Aaron’s life @TeenVogue

Who Was Aaron Bushnell Before He Set Himself on Fire for Palestine?

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’" Bushnell wrote in his last post. "You’re doing it. Right now."

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

1 year

📢 for @them i profiled @xboygeniusx ❤️‍🔥 spoke to @phoebe_bridgers @lucydacus @julienrbaker about saturn returns and making the record, a love letter to the mortifying ordeal of being known, out 3/31 🖤 this one's for the girls, gays, and theys who get it

The Infinite Gay Joy of Boygenius

Ahead of their debut album, the supergroup discuss dealing with fame, speaking out for LGBTQ+ rights, and more.

www.them.us

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

3 years

actual unpopular opinion: the best thing a young person can do for their early career is to give up careerism, accept that the professional success of ur peers is from luck or familial wealth, & have non-monetized hobbies so you can have things in life you care abt outside work

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@leximcmenamin

5 months

War Criminal Responsible For Millions of Deaths Dies at 100 @TeenVogue Kissinger is responsible for 3-4 mil dead. As death tolls rise globally at the hands or arms of US empire, at least we outlive one of its proudest, prolifically murderous footsoldiers.

War Criminal Responsible for Millions of Deaths Dies at 100

Henry Kissinger was one of the US empire's proudest, most prolifically murderous foot soldiers.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

5 months

26-year-old forest defender Tortuguita was shot at least 14 times with their hands raised. none of the officers will face criminal charges for the first killing of a US climate protester. the AJC appears to be accusing them of pre-death thought crimes in their diary. speechless

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@ajc

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#BREAKING : The personal diary of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, an activist who died after exchanging fire with police near the site of the planned public safety training center, was filled with phrases such as “Cop cars love being on fire;” “Prisons were built to be burnt down,”…

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

3 years

spoiler alert: it’s not cis white men, and disproportionately it’s black and brown trans and gnc people

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

the sooner that you realize that the future we need will and does require giving things up, even when they lessen your own personal suffering, the sooner we'll actually get to that future

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

1 year

this is a Tennessee representative. this is the whole conservative ethos: we’re gonna make schools places of violence and hostility, then not send our own kids there, because we actually don’t want the conditions we force on others to apply to us

Brennan Murphy

@brenonade

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REPORTER: "What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?" BURCHETT: "Well, we homeschool her."

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@leximcmenamin

2 years

I spoke to the brilliant abolitionist and geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore @TeenVogue about community organizing, making Amazon a public utility, higher ed and its potential and shortcomings, electoralism, and changing everything.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore Talks Abolition Geography and Liberation

The abolitionist academic on elections, Amazon, unions, and more.

www.teenvogue.com

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@leximcmenamin

2 years

this morning the NYT ran yet another ~just asking questions~ style report on trans youth gender-affirming healthcare, while children's hospitals are getting targeted with bomb threats. as i've previously written, trans healthcare is not actually a debate.

Liberal Media Is Betraying Trans People

"There is a direct line from the discourse to these policies."

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

calling all pharbs ‼️🖤 for @teenvogue ’s Oct 2022 cover i sat down with @phoebe_bridgers , who’s used her Punisher tour + growing platform to talk politics. we talked abortion, #metoo ’s impact on her career, disrupting rock music’s misogyny, + more. 🔗

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

1 year

good thing our president just completely backtracked on popular will and approved an oil and gas project in Alaska right next to an indigenous community that specifically rejected it! that will produce the same carbon emissions as ~2 million cars on road!

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Breaking News: Earth is likely to cross a critical global warming threshold within the next decade unless drastic changes are made, a major UN report said.

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HAPPY PRIDE, caught up with le @xboygeniusx boyz @julienrbaker @phoebe_bridgers @lucydacus about performing in drag in Tennessee, their young queer fanbase, "Pitchfork incels," and sm more... and they shared the exclusive BTS pics w/ @TeenVogue 🫶🏳️‍⚧️🌈👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Boygenius See Your Fixation on Their Sex Lives & They're Not Into It

“When I or Lucy get hate for not turning in our, like, gay paperwork, all I’m thinking about is the way I would have felt at f*cking age 11.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

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was on the train to Columbia to interview @israhirsi on Thur when she stopped replying; she had been arrested. Isra's one of 100+ Columbia/Barnard students arrested over the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. we spoke after her eviction from the dorms @TeenVogue

Isra Hirsi Doesn't Know What Columbia Expected From the Palestine Protests

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter talks about her suspension and arrest.

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

Yesterday, students in New York and Michigan walked out of school. A student-made Boston petition has nearly 5,800 signatures to take school remote. Oakland students are ready to strike next week. Students are resisting school COVID policies @TeenVogue

Students Are Walking Out During the Omicron Surge

"We are the people who have to go to school and risk catching COVID-19."

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

in college there was a professor who many knew preyed on students. I used to beg the school paper to let me report on it and I would always get told that they don’t want him to sue. no one ever said “don’t write it because it’s not true”

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@leximcmenamin

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at Harvard, students say they’re facing harassment, their families have been targeted; some feel deeply unsafe walking alone on campus. @TeenVogue spoke to the students doxxed by a truck naming students who signed a letter on Israel-Palestine — story ⬇️

Harvard Students Doxxed for Israel-Palestine Letter Speak Out

“I think it's just hard to feel safe when not just your face is on a truck, but also… [faces of] people who look like you.”

www.teenvogue.com

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3 months

doing this while singing in memory of Sinéad is a true way to honor her

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CEASEFIRE NOW #GRAMMYs

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@leximcmenamin

2 years

just as abolitionists have known that the courts hold no possibility for justice, survivors know the courts are where abusers can crush them with the arm of the state

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

9 months

don’t think most people understand how dire the vibes are. everyone with a FT job is burnt out, underpaid, overworked, afraid of layoffs; freelancers are burnt out, overworked, underpaid, and losing editor contacts to the turnover. there’s been over 20k layoffs just this year.

hot auntie summer

@Nikki_StrongArm

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working in media is so depressing right now

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I’m on Columbia’s campus. the cops made the school’s facility workers take down the encampment and take apart the food not yet eaten, after 120 students (and I hear 2 NLG observers) were arrested. all campus doors are locked, teachers are canceling classes due to fear of NYPD etc

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

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2 years

these were jobs w high pay and very low job protections, and seeing them go to marginalized writers, i hoped that meant they were gaining a kind of job security. i was wrong. shame on Netflix for exploiting the shit out of an already exploited class of workers

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

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3 years

why would the Philly police publicize — AFTER arresting the rapist — that bystander intervention was somehow to blame? could it be because a crime narrative that suggests we need the intervention of the police to protect people serves a bigger motive?

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2 years

my politics are:

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1 year

JK Rowling's net worth is estimated at 1 billion dollars and she lives on a Scottish estate, curious what protections she needs that would make it a priority for the paper of record to issue a "defense" of her when 25% of UK trans people have been homeless and 20% hate crimed

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9 months

I keep reposting this because it went through weeks of fact- and legal-checking as some of the names in here have pushed outlets to take down negative coverage and it’s not getting read that much which also feels like letting those names win so @TeenVogue

It's Time for Hollywood Empires to Fall

If we can’t imagine other worlds, how can we possibly make them?

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

1 year

this is true, also Teen Vogue doesn’t have a paywall and is one of the few publications I know of that still runs all news and politics coverage through fact checking (as an outsider to the industry, I def assumed more places were fact-checked than really are)

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Roy Wood, Jr ( @roywoodjr ): "All the essential, fair and nuanced reporting, it's all stuck behind a pay wall...say what you want about a conspiracy theory but at least it's affordable." #WHCD #nerdProm

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5 months

I guess it ended

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We have started a progressive movement here in Pennsylvania.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

cannot stop thinking about 12 year old Thomas Siderio being shot in the back and killed by Philly Police within 24 hours of Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and countless other politicians cheering to “fund the police”

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

@adamjohnsonNYC agreed! i quite literally just blogged about this!

The White House’s Dismissive Comments On Covid Are Embarrassing

"The dismissive, jokey attitude of White House officials feels wholly inappropriate."

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

3 months

NOW at Columbia University: a protest to support the Columbia students who were hospitalized after former IDF soldiers used skunk at a protest 2 weeks ago—this action is backed by 85 local and natl organizations vid: crowd chanting “WE WILL FREE PALESTINE WITHIN OUR LIFETIME”

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

3 months

I forgot I made this in 2022 thank you Anne Hathaway for hearing my cry

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

7 months

we are witnessing in real time the collision of years of western media misinformation, disinformation, and disinterest with years of american education failures to appropriately contextualize imperialism and racism

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@leximcmenamin

9 months

seeing Iggy Azalea and Grimes use "restorative justice" terminology in defense of Tory Lanez and C.B. is so depressing. when I was organizing survivors, "restorative justice" practices were raised often w/o awareness of praxis, mostly as a way to keep the accused in community

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

furthermore, it would be great if we could all move past the "youthful women's magazine is politically principled for six years running, WHO KNEW" meme, but in the meantime i will certainly take more traffic to our website!

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@leximcmenamin

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"Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history." James Connolly, 1910 🇮🇪 taking apart the idea of the colonized being "disrespectful" @TeenVogue

The Real Disrespect Is the Monarchy Itself

"The legacy of British colonialism is everywhere."

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

This is an incredibly irresponsible choice by NYMag to continue the rampant self-victimization of harmdoers. When I was in high school in the 2010s, I was raped by a classmate; people made a meme of me blacked out at the party where it happened. Guess who was "canceled"?

New York Magazine

@NYMag

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A list of “to watch out for” appeared on a bathroom wall at an American high school last fall. @lizweil reports on the fallout Cover artwork by KAWS

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@leximcmenamin

2 years

@sandyhonig this is metal. i'm a politics editor at teen vogue, would love to chat w/ u about this, dm me if interested! (would've dmed u but i think they're closed)

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

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personal choices will never stop structural harm but maybe in the wake of at least 36 climate-related deaths in Maui, people can maybe chill on vacationing in Hawaii, as Hawaiians have asked people not to..............

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@leximcmenamin

1 year

Amber Heard never named Johnny Depp or mentioned him by name in the story that was the basis for his suit against her

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@kattenbarge

1 year

Lots of survivors name their abusers and lots of them get sued for it. Litigation abuse is real and I’m so tired of seeing people expect survivors to perpetuate their abuse and suffering for the “benefit” of strangers being able to judge their credibility

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Liberal media keeps screwing over trans people, over and over again. @TeenVogue The New York Times and other “bothsiderist” coverage of trans issues might think they’re not picking a side, but in not standing with trans people, they’ve already chosen.

Liberal Media Is Betraying Trans People

"There is a direct line from the discourse to these policies."

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

2 years

question! ❓🎬 for a Teen Vogue article i'm working on... what movies were useful introductions to political ideas / concepts / values for you? think: The Big Short, Do The Right Thing, Sorry To Bother You...

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1 year

this is from March 2022, when Joe Biden shouted “fund the police” to cheers from congress at the State of the Union

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Comrade @TeenVogue checking in! it's been a busy month for our team, getting up new stories, essays and opeds on Israel's war on Gaza. people are understandably upset by struggling to find fact-checked, nuanced coverage on what's going on. here you go — THREAD 🧵 with links!

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

1 year

in 2015 i was on the college paper. we had a story about an extremely accomplished student who happened to be trans. the professor-advisor for the paper made us have a staff meeting about pronouns. she landed on "if the new york times doesn't use trans pronouns we don't either."

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and if you wanna read it :)

Over 100 College Campuses Walk Out Protesting for Israel Ceasefire on Gaza

“We can't stay silent about this," says one student organizer.

www.teenvogue.com

Clarissa Brooks

@ClarissaMBrooks

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Notice how THOUSANDS of students walked out in support of Palestine yesterday and the only publication to cover it has been Teen Vogue….

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y’all can call Teen Vogue shocking or surprising or anything all day long if u want but all it does is show that 1. u think it’s inherently noteworthy that young people have thoughts and work of their own 2. u don’t realize I have a fricking masters degree and a FT fact-checker

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1 year

hey, wanna read a midterms news roundup from seemingly one of the only pubs not *shocked* by the outcome of last night? @TeenVogue turns out pushing real progressive policies and new candidates works, but pushing centrism and centrist candidates doesn't!

Forget Red vs. Blue: The Progressive Youth Wave Wins 2022

With candidates like Summer Lee, John Fetterman, and Maxwell Frost, and policy gains on abortion and more.

www.teenvogue.com

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i cannot anymore, every social media troll loves to be like “lol TEEN Vogue” whenever I post my work, while no one is trolling the absolute weirdo behavior of national mainstream publications deciding campus-level conflicts are front-page news for ADULTS with JOBS

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3 years

could it be that false narratives that funding for police has decreased while crime has increased — two wrong premises — are enabled by publicizing shocking stories that make the general public sound bad? again bringing in @jbenmenachem ’s piece on this

What the Media Gets Wrong About Last Year’s Uptick in Murders

Many factors contributed to the increase, but protests over police violence aren’t among them.

slate.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

4 months

hi. @TeenVogue 's offices are closed right now. here is a roundup of NOT-PAYWALLED, FREE, FACT-CHECKED reporting and essays on Israel's war on Gaza, U.S. organizing in response, and the media, published over the last few weeks. 🧵 THREAD with links below.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)

@leximcmenamin

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students are being sent home from school, homes are flooding, and the city is struggling to keep up with the flooding — some things YOU can do: - avoid the roads! - check on your basement/ground level neighbors, esp if u know they're elderly or vulnerable - DO NOT order delivery

Read Let This Radicalize You

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New York please stay out of these waters as much as you can

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Nex Benedict, 16, was beaten in an Oklahoma school bathroom on Feb. 7. Nex, who identified within the 2STGNC umbrella, died the next day. LGBTQ+ advocates, incl OK's only nonbinary rep, Mauree Turner, have been sounding the alarm on "transgenocide" there.

Nex Benedict Died After a Bathroom Beating. Oklahoma LGBTQ+ Advocates Are Speaking Out.

"All 2SLGBTQ+ Oklahomans deserve the safety to thrive. And that is becoming increasingly difficult."

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5 months

y’all my Teen Vogue headline for Kissinger dying is gonna hit so hard

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10 months

I profiled @yellowjackets96 ’s #LivHewson , who earlier this spring withdrew from Emmy’s consideration over the gendered acting category. we had a spicy, honest conversation about being nonbinary, #YELLOWJACKETS , top surgery, and more 🐝 @TeenVogue 🔗

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3 years

the funniest thing about ✨pivoting to video✨ is that I actually despise watching videos from media outlets and will do anything to avoid them, and don’t know anyone who regularly and intentionally watches online standalone videos from news outlets

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1 year

hi! @TeenVogue now has an explainer on how to pitch us!

How to Pitch Editors At Teen Vogue

Want to write for us? Here's who and how to pitch your story idea.

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10 months

hearing about layoffs at Seventeen and Cosmo… after the closure of Bitch and gal-dem, with Jezebel at the whim of venture capital, don’t miss that women’s media is up first on the chopping block when it’s time for “conservative financial decisions”

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New York Times running an oped with the subject line “We Owe It to Nex Benedict to Do Better by Bullied Teens” without the oped in question being about how *the NYT* is actually the one who owes LGBT teens better is wild lmao

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#DerryGirls s3 hits Netflix today, so @TeenVogue I explained the historical backdrop to the show, the Troubles; Derry's Bloody Sunday in 1972; and how the show disrupts ahistorical Irish-American narratives around assimilation and solidarity. 🍀

The History Behind "Derry Girls": The Troubles and Bloody Sunday

And where it comes up in the show's final season, now on Netflix.

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ok let's get this STORY (This Is A Reported Story PLEASE CLICK) going around this TL! @TeenVogue 100+ campuses are walking out today to call for a #ceasefire in Gaza, so we spoke to organizers from @palyouthmvmt and @wearedissenters about it.

Over 100 College Campuses Walk Out Protesting for Israel Ceasefire on Gaza

“We can't stay silent about this," says one student organizer.

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2 years

J-schools/legacy journalism don’t realize OR teach that every time a story centers power instead of the marginalized, the stakes become life or death, and the journalist becomes an active agent in that narrative how we cover housing and crime can kill people. our choices matter

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3 years

my last thought on this has to do with mainstream media’s responsibility to not parrot these points. why did the NYT decide to publicize this story? why did a local NBC affiliate, which usually has no problem sharing crime narratives, have to intervene to disrupt it days later?

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2 years

tl;dr solidarity with these workers, and secondly predatory capitalists scrounging on an already depleted industry need to be held accountable

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did you see the New York Times story on gender affirming care? the Reuters one? any of them from the last few years? an ACTUAL expert, the Chief Medical Officer of @LALGBTCenter , explains at @TeenVogue how they missed the mark on this life-or-death issue.

Recent Anti-Trans Articles Miss the Point of Gender-Affirming Care

With trans people's lives on the line, it's about providing the opportunity for a healthy future.

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not to mention how triggering it is for survivors to get a push notification from the NYT about a rape that bystanders ignored on a train they take constantly… big thanks to the NYT for that, on a personal note. but I screenshotted the notification bc I knew something was wrong.

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Palestinian-American student Kinnan Abdalhamid was on a walk with his childhood friends, Tahseen Ali Ahmad and Hisham Awartani, when they were shot at in Nov. Hisham is now paralyzed from the waist down. Kinnan writes @TeenVogue to call for a ceasefire.

I'm One of the Palestinian Students Shot in Vermont. A Ceasefire in Gaza is the Route to Healing.

"There is a moral imperative for anyone in a position of influence to take a stand against Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza."

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love to see an update on my parent company via Pop Crave before they actually update their workers. media going really well, guys

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Pitchfork & GQ are merging according to staff email from Condé Nast: “Both Pitchfork and GQ have unique and valuable ways that they approach music journalism, and we are excited for the new possibilities together. With these organizational changes, some of our Pitchfork…

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Brianna Ghey, 16, was stabbed to death in a U.K. park on Sat. Since then, U.K. media outlets have deadnamed her. By U.K. law, her death certificate will misgender her. And her school hasn't addressed allegations of bullying. what we know, in @TeenVogue

Two Teens Arrested Following Killing of Brianna Ghey, 16

"Protect trans kids every day and fight relentlessly against anti-trans sentiment."

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2 years

breaking 🚨 (personal) 🚨 news (years in the making!) so overjoyed to announce that I'm joining @TeenVogue full-time as News & Politics Editor, under Political Director ❤️‍🔥 @allegrakirkland . my first day in the role is Jan 3. for now, all I have to say is: 🥲🥺♥️😤🤩😭😱

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2 years

John Mulaney just soft launched his baby with Olivia Munn on Instagram

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3 years

well this is, as they say, doing numbers! nothing to promote except my work, I’m a journalist who covers politics, labor and culture, so throw me a follow I guess 🤪

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⏰ new @TeenVogue ⏰ beyond excited to share my interview @prisonculture @dreanyc123 about No More Police @thenewpress “You're not an island, and you have got to be in a place where you understand that other people's lives matter as much as yours.”

'No More Police' Shows Abolitionists Are the Actual Realists

Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie explain how "we don't actually care about children in this country."

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2 years

also i’m hopping in the shower but anyone who thinks these tweets might violate an nda, dm me bc i rly dk lol

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this enables them to continue to appear as the benevolent saviors, while the general public needs to be protected from themselves/each other. but we don't see, or recommend, police busting into people's homes to stop assaults, which is where they usually happen.

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students at Yale launched an encampment tn

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ongoing building occupation at Cal Poly. arrests at NYU. sit-ins at UT Dallas, Houston, and Rice U. and as I rushed this story to pub, encampments at Harvard and USC went up. @TeenVogue 's tracker of all the encampments, police faceoffs, and all we know:

From Mass Arrests to Human Barricades: What to Know About the Pro-Palestine Campus Encampments

As the U.N. warns of a "scholasticide" in Gaza, with at least 80% of schools destroyed.

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last thing: I've spent the last 7-8 years of my life enmeshed in anti-sexual violence work, criticism, and theory. people are constantly bystanders to assault/rape and refuse to intervene; the difference here, and why the police are pushing the story so hard, is it was in public.

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*too* excited to share this one 🔥 at @TeenVogue we talked to the brilliant Gen Z minds of the @kennethmejiaLA for City Controller campaign. "It's gonna take a while for us to get there, but this campaign has proven that abolition is a winning strategy."

Meet the Gen Z'ers Who Got an Abolitionist Elected in LA

"It’s why you don't mess with Gen Z: Not only are they going to find the data, they're going to troll you."

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2 months

been putting a lot into doing justice for nex benedict's story as a nonbinary reporter who's covered the anti-trans campaign since pre-2020, so i hope people read it instead of just resharing social media accounts that aggregate journalism without fact-checking, spreading errors

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finally, some 🚨professional news🚨 today I start as a Contributing Politics Editor @TeenVogue covering breaking news. the 1st outlet I ever wrote for & the only mag I subscribed to as a teen — so glad I saved all my copies. never could’ve known I’d land here. grateful! 🥰

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