More appeasing of the fascist trump administration, muting the exceptional political journalism of #TeenVogue, and those who protested it
Condé Nast also laid off six unionized Teen Vogue employees, including its politics editor. Most of the laid-off employees were “BIPOC women or trans”
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/nov/22/teen-vogue-closure-feminist-media
Obeying #fascism in advance:
Carter Sherman: Less politics, more makeup: the unraveling of Teen Vogue under #tRump 2.0. The folding of the progressive youth-focused magazine into #Vogue comes at turbulent time for journalism and the crumbling of feminist media.
#TeenVogue #media #feminism #autocracy #CondeNast
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/nov/22/teen-vogue-closure-feminist-media
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Rigorous, principled, independent journalism is an essential part of movement building.Such disheartening news
“When I learned that Teen Vogue had been absorbed into Vogue and its politics team had been laid off, it felt like another gut punch in a time of endless bad news. For nearly 10 years, Teen Vogue was an improbable home for some of the sharpest justice journalism in the country, [publishing] incisive essays on prisons, abortion criminalization, police violence, and democracy itself...”
Audio available at the link
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/teen-vogue-progressive-voices
Update and call to action from the Condé Nast Union:
Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
This began when Condé Nast laid off the staff from Teen Vogue. Union members demanded answers from management. Management illegally fired four organizers for engaging in protected activity.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/condeunion.bsky.social/post/3m57eq7bwlk2n
#CondeNast #TeenVogue #Vogue #ArsTechnica #Wired #TheNewYorker #VanityFair #Pitchfork #Glamour #GQ #Union #LaborRights #UnionBusting
Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨
They're asking people to sign their petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
"On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federally protected union activity.
Management singled out the four union leaders from a group of nearly 20 Guild members who approached the head of human resources, Stan Duncan, to seek answers about the decision to dismantle Teen Vogue – a brand praised for its insightful political and cultural journalism often critical of the Trump administration – and related layoffs. Prior to this, union members made repeated attempts to meet with Duncan and other executives to talk through concerns about multiple rounds of layoffs and a seeming shift away from critical politics and identity coverage at several prominent Condé brands. Executives ignored those requests.
On Nov. 7, management additionally suspended without pay five more employees who were present in the hallway while their colleagues asked Duncan questions about their workplace."