Lexi McMenamin

1 week ago | portside.org | Henry A. Giroux |Lexi McMenamin |Liza Featherstone |Julianne McShane

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1 month ago | teenvogue.com | Lexi McMenamin

For the second year in a row, college graduation season is being marked by student activism in solidarity with Palestine, and consequent backlash. Around the world — from Rutgers University, to Cambridge University in the U.K. to University of Doha for Science and Technology in Qatar — students have chanted “Free Palestine” or held Palestinian flags while crossing the graduation stage, sometimes to threats of arrest.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Lexi McMenamin

Probal Rashid/Getty ImagesFor the second year in a row, college graduation season is being marked by student activism in solidarity with Palestine, and consequent backlash. Around the world — from Rutgers University, to Cambridge University in the U.K. to University of Doha for Science and Technology in Qatar — students have chanted “Free Palestine” or held Palestinian flags while crossing the graduation stage, sometimes to threats of arrest.

1 month ago | teenvogue.com | Lexi McMenamin

Youth distrust of mainstream media is more intense than ever. Forty-eight percent of people 18 to 29 say keeping up with politics is one reason they’re on TikTok. Amid the contracting and crumbling of the media industry, we’re in the era of the YouTube video essay, the talking-to-camera headline roundup, and the independently run newsletter. Welcome to Teen Vogue’s new series Logged On, where we talk to the people bringing you politics and the news in innovative and fun ways.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Lexi McMenamin

Youth distrust of mainstream media is more intense than ever. Forty-eight percent of people 18 to 29 say keeping up with politics is one reason they’re on TikTok. Amid the contracting and crumbling of the media industry, we’re in the era of the YouTube video essay, the talking-to-camera headline roundup, and the independently run newsletter. Welcome to Teen Vogue’s new series Logged On, where we talk to the people bringing you politics and the news in innovative and fun ways.