Over the years, many who read the news in the USA were surprised to find a magazine, ostensibly for teenagers, became one of the last bastions of mainstream press resistance.
A holdout from the earlier purges at other organizations, it was silenced this week.
I find this noteworthy USA news because it helps chronicle the ongoing collapse of the commercial press in the country.
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.
186 employees worked at teen Vogue. 6 were laid off, all(?) were political reporters. Aftermath is that there is now only 1 woman of color on the editorial staff, and if we are to believe the tweet, no trans people remain either. Given the % of population which is black or trans, it should not be surprising that only 6 employees are black women or trans.
However, I think it reflects poorly on their hiring practices that these minorities were entirely concentrated in “political reporting,” which really betrays what we already knew about rainbow capitalism: minorities are perceived to be political. Teen Vogue must have intentionally concentrated minorities into this one department, rather than hire equitably in all departments.
Shit. Makes me worried for Ars Technica, too. It’s also owned by Condé Nast.
Now we riot
Teen vogue was the line? I mean, I’m happy we’ve finally made it, just confused as to why that’s the line, but let’s goooooooo
The line was crossed about 500 years ago.