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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.
By Lex McMenaminPhotography by Bea Oyster
Maxwell Frost on Ron DeSantis, Hopes for a Progressive Florida, and the Power of Collective Movement
In this op-ed, Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost explains how a progressive Florida does and will continue to exist.
By Maxwell Frost
Florida Schools Now Require Parental Consent for a Nickname, and Trans Students Say It Targets Them
Students tell Teen Vogue that a new board of education rule requiring parental consent to use a different name leaves their identities “split at the root.”
By Fortesa Latifi
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.
By Lex McMenamin
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."
By Lex McMenamin
Colleges Are Getting Rid of Their LGBTQ+ Resources
Due to Republican state lawmakers’ crusade against LGBTQ+ rights and DEI.
By Mary Retta
Susana Went to Florida for the American Dream, but Found a Nightmare
From the Parkland shooting to laws targeting undocumented immigrants like her.
By Yacob Reyes
Florida HBCU Students Are Suing the State for Discrimination in Funding
FAMU students say the state is chronically underfunding its only public HBCU.
By Mia Uzzell
Trans Youth Are Being Forced to Leave Their Home States Behind
“No kid should be forced to leave the place where they grew up.”
By Fortesa Latifi
Florida
Florida Students Will Have to Learn About Some Supposed Upsides of Slavery
Ron DeSantis' Board of Education will make public school students learn about the “personal benefit” of being enslaved.
By Eric Lutz
‘The Tampa Five’ Face Years in Prison After Campus Protests
The students and staffer were arrested during protests against the DeSantis administration.
By Sierra Lyons
In Florida, It’s a Crime For Trans People to Use the Correct Public Bathroom
It’s unclear how the law will be enforced.
By James Factora
Florida Teens Are Doing Whatever They Can to Stop DeSantis 2024
Young Floridians really don’t want Ron DeSantis to be president.
By Fortesa Latifi
Hayley Williams to Fans: If You Vote for DeSantis, You’re Dead to Me
The Paramore singer says she’s very comfortable talking politics.
By Teen Vogue Staff
Politics
Amanda Gorman Speaks Out After a Florida School Bans Her Poem
A single parent can silence an author.
By Elizabeth Logan
2024
Ron DeSantis's Presidential Campaign Launch on Twitter Was a Total Mess
There were 30 minutes of technical difficulties.
By Eric Lutz
What Ron DeSantis Just Did to Trans Rights in Florida
The so-called "Let Kids Be Kids" package is a disgrace.
By James Factora
Florida Is Investigating a Teacher Who Showed Students a Disney Movie With a Gay Character
The incident comes amid the state’s ongoing war with the Mouse House.
By James Factora
Florida Is Ground Zero for So Many Youth Movements
“When you grow up in a place like Florida, you see a lot of injustice.”
By Elizabeth Djinis
Florida Students Are Taking Their Education Into Their Own Hands
On April 21, students from across the state are walking out to learn.
By Rachel Janfaza