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Register now to join a virtual discussion on May 10th, aimed at illuminating best practices for reporting and editing on transgender and LGBTQ+ issues. Speakers include Katie Barnes (ESPN), Lex McMenamin (Teen Vogue), & Phoebe Petrovic (Wisconsin Watch). Link below↓

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hi Bluesky sorry I’ve been slammed… been a busy few weeks on college campuses, aka my beat… back with my first oped in months being correct and normal about what’s going on with the policing of campus Palestine protests, namely that from the WH down they’re wrong @teenvogue.bsky.social

Cops Don't Belong at Campus Protestswww.teenvogue.com The police are making it abundantly clear they're not there to protect students. But that’s also not news.

hi Bluesky, wish I was ever here w/ good news. Nex Benedict, 16, was beaten in an Oklahoma school bathroom on Feb. 7. Nex, who identified within the 2STGNC umbrella, died the next day. Now LGBTQ+ Oklahomans are mourning the loss of a teenager in a school district prev targeted by Chaya Raichik.

Nex Benedict Died After a Bathroom Beating. Oklahoma LGBTQ+ Advocates Are Speaking Out.www.teenvogue.com "All 2SLGBTQ+ Oklahomans deserve the safety to thrive. And that is becoming increasingly difficult."

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“Owning our own work, and being beholden to no one but our readers and colleagues — as opposed to say, investors, venture capitalists, or out-of-touch executives — feels like the future.” www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/six-...

Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitablewww.niemanlab.org "Owning our own work, and being beholden to no one but our readers and colleagues — as opposed to say, investors, venture capitalists, or out-of-touch executives — feels like the future."

On Feb. 11, Israel invaded Rafah in the Gaza Strip—an area with 1.4 million Palestinian refugees—killing dozens, as Americans watched the Super Bowl and Biden’s reelection campaign posted memes. Amnesty puts the death toll from Rafah at 95 killed, “nearly half children." @teenvogue.bsky.social

Israel's Attack on Rafah Kills Dozens, Despite International Criticismwww.teenvogue.com The following day, Amnesty International put the death toll in Rafah at 95, "nearly half of them children."

“A report that tracked layoffs in the industry in 2023 recorded 2,681 in broadcast, print, and digital news media. NBC News, Vox Media, Vice News, Business Insider, Spotify, theSkimm, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, and Condé Nast all made significant layoffs. BuzzFeed News closed, as did Gawker.”

Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?www.newyorker.com Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press’s relationship to its audience.

the straight-up fascism happening in Florida attempts to erase that it was always diverse, always queer and trans, always Black and brown, always full of migrants. that's why we did a whole package about it in November, talking to the young organizers trying to protect each other

i should note I was born in Florida, I love Florida, and I'm extremely pissed off about how it's been taken over by some of the country's most brain-dead politicians and some of its most ghoulish affluent right-wing voters and donors.

How Young Floridians Are Fighting “Florida-Grown Fascism” Under Ron DeSantiswww.teenvogue.com “The obstacle is just living, at this point; trying to make sure that everybody lives in peace, and [can] get Florida back to what it was.”

despite what mainstream media tells you, nobody understands young voters the way other young people do. meet @teenvogue.bsky.social's team of 2024 election student-journalist correspondents reporting from 7 key states — Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin 🗳️🗳️🗳️

Meet Teen Vogue's 2024 Election Student Correspondentswww.teenvogue.com Our team represents the key states that will determine the 2024 election: Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Palestinian-American student Kinnan Abdalhamid was on a walk with his childhood friends, Tahseen Ali Ahmad and Hisham Awartani, wearing kuffiyehs when they were shot at in Nov '23 in VT. Hisham is now paralyzed from the waist down. Kinnan writes @teenvogue.bsky.social to call for a ceasefire.

I'm One of the Palestinian Students Shot in Vermont. A Ceasefire in Gaza is the Route to Healing.www.teenvogue.com "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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Mask requirements are being reinstated. Long COVID studies and hearings are being arranged. Messages about clean air are being disseminated. All of this is a result of amazing grassroots advocates, who have persistently pushed governments to do better for years. Advocacy works!

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I wrote about Ohio’s gender-affirming care ban—how care for adults is being targeted through new restrictions even after a ban on care for youth was vetoed, and how this is all reminiscent of laws aimed at making abortion virtually inaccessible even where it is legal. newrepublic.com/article/1779...

Mike DeWine Is Following the Right’s Vicious Abortion Playbook on Trans Health Carenewrepublic.com The Ohio governor’s not going to ban gender-affirming care for minors—he’s just going to make it impossible.

IT’S BEEN A WHILE SORRY BSKY! FINALLY blogged the whole Bill Ackman of it all @teenvogue.bsky.social: how one wealthy VC dude followed a right winger playbook to oust Claudine Gay over plagiarism allegations—only to go for journalists’ heads when they alleged his wife engaged in plagiarism

What’s Going On with Harvard and Bill Ackman?www.teenvogue.com How one disturbingly wealthy VC dude followed a right winger’s playbook to oust Claudine Gay over plagiarism — only to go for journalists’ heads when they alleged his wife also engaged in plagia...

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So @modernistwitch.bsky.social & I will be sharing a new pocket zine for youth about de-escalation. The session is for all ages and we invite young people in particular to join us. www.eventbrite.com/e/abolitioni...

Abolitionist Bystander Interventionwww.eventbrite.com Join JJ Skolnik and Mariame Kaba as we introduce our new pocket zine along with a mini-training geared towards youth.

it appears people on this site are already arguing that any Biden pushback is about his age or just sentiment-based rather than policy. my latest summarizes some rationale for rejecting Biden @teenvogue.bsky.social (spoiler, it’s not his age)

Is Biden Risking 2024 Over No Israel Ceasefire? Some Youth Groups Say Yeswww.teenvogue.com When asked about the chances of a ceasefire in Gaza during a press conference, Biden reportedly replied, “None. No possibility.”

hi Bluesky sorry it’s been a minute, *gestures at news environment*, I went to Florida for 5 days and wrote the kind of long magazine essay that jschool students dream of, and I genuinely think you might learn something new from these young Floridians @teenvogue.bsky.social

my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social ✍️ as noted by Alex Kane at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, only 10% of Dems have backed the Ceasefire Now resolution. last night, the National Muslim Democratic Council issued Biden an ultimatum: “As Gaza turns red, so could crucial battleground states.”

Democrats Divided Over Israel Ceasefire Callswww.teenvogue.com Some voters are planning to withhold votes for Biden in 2024 over it.

hi Bluesky! @teenvogue.bsky.social I interviewed some of the young people coordinating an 100+ campus walkout in support of a ceasefire in Gaza today, including from the Palestinian Youth Movement and the anti-war group Dissenters. please read and share, was no small feat

Over 100 College Campuses Walkout Protesting for Israel Ceasefire on Gazawww.teenvogue.com “We can't stay silent about this," said one student organizer.

“organized abandonment”, via Ruth Wilson Gilmore

This has already been done to a lot of people in the US, to be sure. But as climate change worsens we are going to see greater and greater portions of the population liquidated for profit and to maintain ruling class control. We’d better start seeing through their lies right now.

researching the original seasons of jersey shore as a cope and really feel like i must academically study the feminist praxis of the jwoww/snooki letter to sam about ronnie in a hypervisible reactionary microcosm of rape culture

the latest on the killing of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume—the Palestinian American child killed this wknd in an Islamophobic attack in Illinois—now live @teenvogue.bsky.social Al-Fayoume's mother remains in hospital, while hate crime investigations proceed federally and locally

Killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American Boy Investigated as Federal Hate Crimewww.teenvogue.com "This incident cannot help but further raise the fears of Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian communities in our country."

NEWS: Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, "squad" newcomers Summer Lee and Delia Ramirez (elected '22), Andre Carson introduce congressional resolution for Gaza ceasefire

what's the opposite of "american exceptionalism"? "american mediocrity"? or "depravity"? this week is rly showing it

many free speech warriors are suddenly MIA this week on that subject… interesting, that

hi bluesky, haven't posted anything quite like this On Here yet got ~a little personal~ about searching for faith and finding it in the rubble of modern theology alongside Sufjan Stevens, his new album Javelin, and how death begets life — a "thing to be used" (Lauren Berlant) ❤️‍🩹

Sufjan Stevens Songs Were Always Gay and They Were Always About Godwww.them.us The singer-songwriter’s decidedly queer faith has long been an influence on listeners.

and we're all so lucky for it!!

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Palestine is Free (If You Want It)thenewinquiry.com The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.

the New York Times messed up covering trans youth again so you know what time it is @teenvogue.bsky.social

also should go without saying but this article's equating of people leaving a place because of, among other things, proposed tolls on highways with people leaving because their family was under direct threat by the state is wildly offensive www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/u...

Liberal Media Is Betraying Trans Peoplewww.teenvogue.com "There is a direct line from the discourse to these policies."

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I see a lot of people bemoaning on social media that ‘everyone seems to have/wants to have a disability’ and I just want you to know that scrolling past is a possibility. We can’t put all the disabled and sick people in institutions and jails just to make you comfortable now, boo-boo