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Lex McMenamin

News and Politics Editor

Lex McMenamin is the politics editor at Teen Vogue and a GLAAD Award-nominated writer covering politics, identity, movements and culture. They have been published in New York Magazine, the BBC, Them, the Nation, i-D and elsewhere.
Politics

AOC Blasts Biden Admin's Confusing Trans Youth Sports Rules

“The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It’s a disgrace.”
Politics

3 Tennessee Dems Might Get Expelled Today Over Gun Violence Protests

"We're diluting our democracy. We're marching toward fascism," Rep. Gloria Johnson tells Teen Vogue.
Politics

Harvard Police Searched 4 Black Students' Dorm at Gunpoint Over Hoax

“We felt our lives were in danger. We are traumatized.”
Politics

What You Need to Know as a Trans Student in School

There are a lot of people who want to keep trans youth and their families safe.
Politics

What It's Like to Fight Bathroom Bans as a Trans Student

"My advice is, anytime you have the opportunity to talk to another trans kid, do it."
Politics

A Tennessee Congressman Says Politicians "Aren't Going to Do Anything"

His solution for school shootings? "Well, we homeschool [our kid]."
Politics

At Least 3 Children Were Fatally Shot At a Nashville Elementary School

.A shooter opened fire at the Pre-K through 6th grade school
Politics

Why Is AOC Cohosting a School Fair Featuring Military Academies?

In 2020, she was against military recruitment in low-income communities.
Politics

Musicians Are Fighting Tennessee's Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills With A Massive Concert

“I don't want to concede my home to the white supremacists,” Julien Baker tells Teen Vogue.
Politics

Biden is Backtracking on His Promises, and Young People are Pissed

The commitments that young voters backed Biden for "have been broken," says U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost.
Cover Stars

It's Yasmin Finney's World, We're All Just Living In It

“I didn't realize how powerful the universe is, how powerful manifestation is.”
Politics

Biden ‘Abandons Millions of Young People’ By Approving the Willow Project

Millions of people signed a petition to stop the new oil drilling project in Alaska.
Politics

Republicans Are Trying to Roll Back Child Labor Regulations

Maybe we could make child labor a thing for the history books? Just a thought.
Politics

Lorena Austin Wants to Redefine What a Politician Looks Like

The Arizona state representative is the first Chicanx gender-nonconforming state official in the country.
Politics

Video of Drag Queens Reading NY Times Criticism Plays Outside the Paper's Offices

"An institution most highly revered but suddenly turning into something quite weird..."
Politics

How Organizers (and Fiona Apple) Helped Launch a Court Watching Network

"We could actually knock some sh*t down and build some new sh*t up."
Politics

Hayley Williams Criticizes Tennessee's Drag, Trans Health Care Bills

“Drag is not a crime. Gender-affirming health care for all, including our youth, is a necessity,”
Music

Loki’s Folly Is the Gen Z Grunge Band You Need to Be Paying Attention to

Check out an exclusive premiere of their new music video.
Politics

Florida College Students Walk Out Over DeSantis Policies

“He knows that attacking trans people will make him popular with his party."
Politics

Florida Teacher Fired After Showing Empty Library Shelves on Social Media

"I read books about the consequences of this when I was in school…"
Politics

Organizers are Getting Banned Books to DeSantis's Florida

"Black history and radical ideas cannot be censored!"
Politics

Two Teens Arrested Following Killing of Brianna Ghey, 16

"Protect trans kids every day and fight relentlessly against anti-trans sentiment."
Politics

Young People Are Uniting to Fight Atlanta's "Cop City"

"This is every issue we care about wrapped into one."
Politics

Memphis's Special Police Unit Is Over – But It's Only One of Many

Plainclothes units like SCORPION are on the rise again after 2020's policing protests.