"For nearly ten years, was an improbable home for some of the sharpest justice journalism in the country. While other outlets chased clicks or softened language, Teen Vogue published incisive essays on prisons, abortion criminalization, police violence, and democracy itself. Its writers didn't just analyze systems of inequality and injustice-they handed the microphone to those who lived them first hand."
"Teen Vogue's dissolution signals a more troubling shift: the quiet disappearance of expert community voices from mainstream media and, more broadly, the silencing of those who challenge the dominant fear-mongering narratives that consolidate support for right-wing political agendas. It's no coincidence that this silencing is unfolding alongside a broader assault on labor itself-evident in newsroom union fights like Condé Nast's and a weakened National Labor Relations Board. These attacks are central to how authoritarian forces consolidate power and exert control."
Teen Vogue's politics team was absorbed into Vogue and laid off, ending nearly a decade of incisive justice journalism that covered prisons, abortion criminalization, police violence, and democracy. The outlet amplified first-hand accounts, centering people living injustice and the defenders and organizers confronting systemic failures. The dissolution signals a wider disappearance of expert community voices from mainstream media and contributes to the silencing of challengers to fear-mongering narratives that bolster right-wing agendas. That silencing is occurring alongside attacks on labor, including newsroom union fights and a weakened National Labor Relations Board, which help authoritarian forces consolidate power. Zealous was created to help those closest to injustice tell their stories.
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