Allegra Kirkland
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Politics @TeenVogue. Steward @condeunion. Previously @TPM. DMs are open. Reach me off Twitter at [email protected]
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Bless Anna Merlan for agreeing to be on the eclipse beat for Teen Vogue tinyurl.com/bdexfsmk
in actual news, Emily Bloch reports:
North Carolina's Appalachian State Univ. celebrated Pride Week in the spring—until this year it was unexpectedly renamed 'Spring Fest,' around when the school fired 4 LGBT+ staff.
now queer students fear suppression.
teenvogue.com/story/appalach…
That’s a wrap! Thank you to our panelists Laura Barrón-López, Waleed Shahid 🪬, Patrick Ruffini and Allegra Kirkland for a deep dive into young voters.
They talked about the impact of media messaging, cultural shifts and how young people shape public opinion.
I couldn't have said any of this better. It's a REALLY great breakdown of some of the history that #CowboyCarter rests on - thank you Teen Vogue for your scholarship and journalism!
p.s. that's Dena Jennings, who was Black Banjo Renaissance #21 :)
teenvogue.com/story/beyonce-…
LeaveitBlankNY Wisconsin Vote UNINSTRUCTED 🗳️ Wisconsin Vote UNINSTRUCTED's goal was 20k votes—the margin Biden won by in WI in 2020. it got almost 50k.
🗳️ an initial tally says LeaveitBlankNY got 14% of the Dem primary vote
🗳️ in Rhode Island, 'uncommitted' got 16% of Dem voters
🗳️ and in Connecticut it got 14%
teenvogue.com/story/primary-…
'We have 1 resident who's lost over 80 family members in Gaza. I don't think that person is concerned about how to vote come Nov. He's grieving and trying to understand, make sense of how this can happen.'
from Dearborn mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud's intv Teen Vogue
teenvogue.com/story/abdullah…
Read this powerful piece from Staff Attorney Vic Wiener and Kristin Henning in Teen Vogue about the harm and ineffectiveness of ski mask bans.
teenvogue.com/story/ski-mask…