Lex McMenamin (they/them)
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
@leximcmenamin
movement building reporter @GuardianUS words @nymag @them @theintercept more. was politics @TeenVogue member @TransJA forever @CondeUnion
- something that’s fun to witness in real time is who, exactly, “cancel culture” comes for
- Ballina is Joe Biden’s ancestral hometown in Ireland
Vandals daub ‘Genocide Joe’ under damaged mural of US President Joe Biden in Ballina sundayworld.com/news/irish-new… - a great way to thank Comrade Teen Vogue would be to click on and read our articles on our website because these tweets praising our politics go viral maybe every other week but p much never result in increased site traffic! which is a good way to help us keep doing our jobs!This Post is from a suspended account. Learn more
- been seeing that NYT oped about the stratification of free vs. paywalled news so I made a sign to tap
- Angus Cloud dying at 25 a week after his dad’s death, Shuhada Sadaqat / Sinead O’Connor a year after her 17 year old son found dead by suicide, we are all subjected to profound loss under systems that make justice impossible, healing inconceivable, may they rest
- rest in peace, sinead
Sinead O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56 irishtimes.com/culture/music/… - "WE NOT LEAVING HO" — Fordham students facing arrestReplying to @sophiehurwitzStudents press a phone against the glass to update those outside: admin says that students inside will face suspension if they don’t leave within the hour, and alums will be banned from campus.
- I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers on other sections, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
- Elon Musk is currently tweeting up a storm about trans people while his daughter is looking gorgeous on the cover of Teen Vogue explaining why gender-affirming healthcare is life-saving for trans youth teenvogue.com/story/vivian-j…
- not often that you see courts rule in favor of women survivors, let alone 3 high profile instances in one day, making note for posterity’s sake
- shoutout Stevie Nicks, whose first answer in this Q&A is just her rejecting mask-shaming and reminding people that it is simply logical, practical, and a good public health practice to mask! love you queen rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
![Where do you prefer that I sit?
You’re good right there, as long as you don’t think you have Covid.
No, I don’t.
Well, thank goodness we’re done [touring] for a while, so I can go home and not have a mask on all the time. As a singer with asthma, I fucking hate the masks, but I wear them. People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, “Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.”
I can’t get [Covid] again. I mean, I’m old, so I’ll only be around for another 15 years. But you guys have another 30 or 40 years, so you should think about it.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaqvRWvXEAcs4gX.png)
- idk if the hot takes on Amber Heard realize but I would happily publicly list the ppl who have assaulted or abused me in order to prevent others from going through it again, and the only reason I don’t is defamation law—which has been used to silence survivors for years
- Inbox: Cornell students allege yesterday was the “first [known] time a U.S. university has enacted deportation powers against a student” over pro-Palestine organizing, effectively deporting grad student Momodou Taal, over a protest of defense contractors at a job fair last week
