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Teen Vogue Is Good |
Could Condé Nast be publishing the best mainstream forum for progressive views?
Yes, it’s still owned by Condé Nast. But Teen Vogue has been publishing writers who’ve managed to spread progressive and radical views to a new audience... with political primers like “Everything You Need to Know About General Strikes” and “Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar.”...
The New Statesman has just declared Teen Vogue to be a “champion of democratic socialism,” the interest in the new Teen Vogue is attributable to a sense of urgency in the air and also the growing awareness of the bankruptcy of neoliberalism…
To understand things a bit better, I sat down with Samhita Mukhopadhyay, the magazine’s executive editor.
...name a couple of articles that show the kinds of things Teen Vogue wants to do.
I’m really proud... we did an entire package on fat bodies...we shot a size twenty-four model for one of the main features.
I was very excited about everything we did for Covering Climate Now. We were part of that initiative.
We put Greta on the cover, which I thought was fantastic. And we did that cover in literally fifteen minutes. She’s a very, very busy young woman...
The right wing thinks we are brainwashing a new generation. I put one such quote from a right-winger on my Twitter bio, “The most insidious form of teen communist propaganda,” or something like that.
That’s nice. I like that.
