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Lex McMenamin

News and Politics Editor

Lex McMenamin is the politics editor at Teen Vogue and a GLAAD Award-nominated writer covering politics, identity, movements and culture. They have been published in New York Magazine, the BBC, Them, the Nation, i-D and elsewhere.
Style

“Brandy Hellville” Highlights the Worst Parts of Fast Fashion

“From the beginning of the supply chain to the end, we’re all being exploited by the same system.”
Politics

Primary Voters Are Rebuking Biden With Uncommitted Votes Over Gaza

"We don't want lip service and we're done with games," one Listen to Wisconsin organizer said.
Culture

Adrianne Lenker Wants You to Touch Grass and Call Your Grandma

“I'm trying to exist outside of any time period, any one age bracket — or technology, period.”
Politics

Judith Butler Isn't Afraid of Gender — They're Calling Out Who Is

"The Nex Benedict story, I remember being bullied in that bathroom," they told Teen Vogue.
Politics

Instagram and Threads Are Limiting Political Content in Your Feed

Here’s how to turn off the setting.
Culture

Billie Eilish, Ramy Youssef, and More Wore Artists4Ceasefire Pins at Oscars 2024

“The pin symbolizes collective support for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.”
Politics

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."
Politics

Hunter Schafer Among 51 Arrested at Biden Gaza Protest

The reported death toll in Palestine is nearly 30,000.
Politics

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.”
Politics

Israel's Attack on Rafah Kills Dozens, Despite International Criticism

The following day, Amnesty International put the death toll in Rafah at 95, "nearly half of them children."
Politics

17-Year-Old Palestinian-American Killed in Occupied West Bank by Off-Duty Israeli Forces

“They are using our tax dollars in the U.S. to support the weapons to kill our own children.”
Movies

Kristen Stewart Thinks Twilight Is “Such a Gay Movie”

"I mean, a Mormon woman wrote this book."
Politics

What’s Going On With Harvard and Bill Ackman?

How one disturbingly wealthy investor dude adopted right-wingers' playbook to oust Claudine Gay — only to go for journalists’ heads when they alleged his wife also engaged in plagiarism.
Politics

Right-Wingers Celebrate Claudine Gay's Resignation From Harvard

After accusations of antisemitism and being cleared of “research misconduct,” Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday.
Politics

They Went on a Hunger Strike for a Gaza Ceasefire. What's Next?

"Every day that we don't get to a ceasefire is another day when Palestinian men and women and children will be killed."
Politics

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.
Politics

Israel, Hamas 4-Day Ceasefire in Gaza Set for Thanksgiving

Reportedly, over 14,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1.6 million Gazans have been displaced.
Politics

Comrade Cardi B Refuses to Support Joe Biden, Furious Over NYC Budget

“I am not endorsing no f*cking presidents no more.”
Music

Dove Cameron Says She Was ‘Wasting Away’ Inside a ‘Tiny, Hetero, Girl Next Door Box’

"I'm sure that people are trying to figure out who the f*ck I am between these two very intense sides of a coin."
Politics

Is Biden Risking 2024 Over No Israel Ceasefire? Some Youth Groups Say Yes

When asked about the chances of a ceasefire in Gaza during a press conference, Biden reportedly replied, “None. No possibility.”
Politics

New College in Exile: Hampshire College

Teen Vogue speaks to students forced out of New College of Florida by the school’s conservative hostile takeover.
Politics

In Ron DeSantis’s Florida, Young People Are Fighting for a State Where They Belong

For our Red Tide series, Teen Vogue spent five days with the people defending Florida youth from Ron DeSantis.
Politics

What Florida Youth Want You to Know About DeSantis’s 2024 Run

"Whether you're in Florida or not, if you think Florida isn't coming to you, guess what? It will."