Sometime in the mid 2010s, Teen Vogue transformed from a magazine for teenage girls to a propaganda rag for wannabe revolutionaries. 

The higher-ups appear to have seen the error of their ways, with parent company Condé Nast announcing in early November that Vogue would absorb Teen Vogue. Multiple staffers were fired from Teen Vogue, including news and politics editor, Lex McMenamin.

“My name is Lex McMenamin. You may know me otherwise as Comrade Teen Vogue. And until last Monday, I was the politics section at Teen Vogue,” said McMenamin in a speech posted to social media Nov. 13. 

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers on other sections, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

— Lex McMenamin (they/them) (@leximcmenamin) November 3, 2025

“I was the only one left … Of the eight of us who were laid off last week, five were women of color. Two were the only remaining black staffers on the editorial staff at........

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