Former Teen Vogue Editor Gives Speech Complaining About Being Fired, Accidentally Proves Why She Should Be Fired
In the mid-2010s, Teen Vogue transformed from a magazine for teenage girls into a propaganda rag for budding revolutionaries.
The top brass appear to have realized their mistakes, with parent company Condé Nast announcing in early November that Vogue would absorb Teen Vogue. Several staff members were laid off Teen Vogueincluding News and Politics Editor Lex McMenamin.
“My name is Lex McMenamin. You may know me as Teen Vogue Comrade. And until last Monday, I was the politics section of Teen Vogue,” McMenamin said in a speech posted to social media on November 13.
I was fired from Teen Vogue today along with several other staff members from other sections, and today is my last day.
definitely more to come from me when the dust settles, but as far as I know, after today there will be no more political staff 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 members of the editorial staff of Teen Vogue. I was the only trans employee and I was fired. (RELATED: America’s ‘non-binary’ and ‘trans’ community is collapsing)
McMenamin’s X profile lists “they/them” pronouns.
“And one of my proudest memories, one of the things I was most proud of, working at Teen Voguehad leadership comprised of women of color consecutively for several years, a rarity in this building.
Consider how truly bizarre this statement is. The highlight of your career is working with non-white people?
Racial sycophancy aside, McMenamin appears to be a white woman. Or a white one, at least. McMenamin should have sacrificed her job to a more deserving black woman years ago, for the sake of consistency.
“Teen Vogue recently celebrated its 20th anniversary,” McMenamin continued, “But many of you probably heard about us in 2016, during the first Trump administration, where people became aware of our willingness to speak truth to power, fact-check our speech, and decisively clarify what’s going on in the world, from Palestine to trans rights to campus organizing, you name it, we were ready to talk about it.
Translation: When people realized what a cesspool was Teen Vogue had become in recent years.
Teen Voguea magazine ostensibly aimed at teenage girls, published a guide to anal sex in November 2019. That year, the magazine also published a guide to “queer sex.”
Abortion is normal. Abortion is common. https://t.co/ZVKr3grjq1
– Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) June 25, 2022
Teen Vogue advised adolescent girls on how to obtain hormonal contraception in December 2020. They further advised adolescent girls on how to obtain an abortion after Roe v. Wade was hit. (RELATED: Blue State University rolls out birth control vending machines)
Other notables Teen Vogue articles include: “Menstrual Blood Magic: 3 Spells for Your Period”, a protest against “Digital Blackface” and “The Polyamory Workbook”.
“And media companies are laying off queer and trans workers, Black workers, people of color from their teams en masse, and eradicating the identity verticals that even let us know what’s happening in our communities,” McMenamin’s speech continued.
It appears that these queer, trans, black, and non-white workers had little to offer outside of their identities as queer, trans, black, and non-white.
McMenamin then criticized the Trump administration for encouraging layoffs of allegedly marginalized people, and called for the “reinstatement of the fired four,” four union leaders allegedly fired by Condé Nast.
America’s teenage girls will have to somehow survive without McMenamin’s political ideas.
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