#PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue

Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning.

That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine.

If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do.

Note how "facts" becomes "progressive politics"

The Venn diagram of corporate democrats who were and are silent on Palestinian genocide but loud and upset about Mamdani’s platform of affordability is basically a perfect circle.

The horrors of Genocide doesn’t offend them, but a bold message of affordability does?🤔

And corporate democrats wonder why the party approval is at a historic low of 26%. It’s because you listen to your corporate donors, not your actual voters. Absurd and pathetic.

This sounds really innocuous, but Teen Vogue just axed their whole politics desk — everybody working on it has been laid off. This is devastating: it was a publication with a lot of reach and it was consistent in how it spoke out against this administration.

https://www.vogue.com/article/teen-vogue-is-joining-voguecom

This one is for the allies. Please boost to get wider reach.

I know you're upset about what's going on. Me too. And, like me, I bet you frequently have that feeling of wanting to throw your hands up and say, "But what can I do about it?"

Let me give you one of the most powerful tools you can use to help fight bigotry. And it's a tool that only you can use, because any marginalized person who uses it will be seen as aggrieved and immediately discounted.

What is this amazing tool? I call it

Dude. Not cool.

This phrase. Commit it to memory (or something like it that's more in character for you). Use it when someone around you is being a bigot. It's not an angry phrase, it's more one you deliver with bafflement, like you're confused the bigot just said what they said.

Simple social disapproval, particularly coming from peers, friends, or coworkers at the same level, is powerful. We all want to belong. Clearly but subtly voicing your disapproval (it has to be clearly understood by the bigot, for this to work) makes a real difference.

For it to really be effective, we need everyone to be doing it. If every bigot out there always caught shade every time they said some bigoted thing, they would stop doing it. So spread the word.

Use this simple tool to tap into millions of years of evolutionary social training.

Racism? Dude, not cool.
Misogyny? Dude, not cool.
Homophobia? Dude, not cool.

It works. It's low-risk (please don't use it if it feels dangerous to do so, though). It can change the world.