Brittney McNamara

Three Real Doctors Review Our Year in MAHA Three doctors grade RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again agenda, and how he's impacted the country's health so far.

Friday marks a year since RFK Jr. was sworn in as HHS Secretary, blasting his Make America Healthy Again agenda from niche to national policy. How's his goal going? I got three doctors to grade his performance so far.

Spoiler: he's far from a straight A student.
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The Playboy Readers Who Couldn't Get an Abortion Old Playboy Forum letters reveal the truth about life before Roe v. Wade—one many Americans are reliving today.

On what would be the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Playboy resurfaced reader letters from our archives about what life was like before legal abortion—a reality many Americans are reliving today. Intro to the letters by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social
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News Creator Corps Teen Misinformation Survey Hello! Thank you so much for taking part in our short survey about how you and your teens consume information. At News Creators Corps, we’re invested in ensuring access to quality news and information...

If you're a parent to a teenager, I need your help!

I'm working with News Creator Corps on a survey about parents, teens, and misinformation. The goal is to create engaging resources that parents and teens can use, but to best do that, NCC needs your input:

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Well I don't like that one bit

How do we live like this?

I actually disagree that past audiences weren’t more informed! Maybe not on specifics, but the # of people who have interacted w/ a journalist has decreased. That, combined with the sharp decline in local newsrooms, means most people don’t have any reference point for who a journo is or what they do

I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started. Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.

This story is wild, but it's also a great look at journalistic ethics & the decision making process around what we report & how. Trust in journalism is at a low, partly because many don't know what the journalistic process is. Here's a look behind that curtain

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The research strategy you need to teach your kids to help them separate truth from fiction - News Creator Corps Lateral reading involves leaving the website to figure out its legitimacy.

Learned to be more like the smartest people you’ll ever meet (fact checkers!) for News Creator Corps newscreatorcorps.org/2025/12/late...

Creators are helping teens sift through the flood of misinformation - News Creator Corps Frequent exposure to social media misinformation can make it even more difficult to discern what’s real and what’s fake online.

Social media has a misinformation problem that’s making teens (and everyone, really) unable to spot the truth. Here’s my latest about how some creators are working to fix that.
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Introducing Information Wasteland, a package about misinfo on the internet –– from AI iterations of digital blackface to a growing "alt-right pipeline" among wellness influencers –– edited by former features director @brittneymac15.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/information-...

Omg thank you ❤️❤️

I got a pitch today about how to talk about getting laid off, so it feels like a good time to say that I was laid off from Teen Vogue after almost nine years as they fold the magazine into Vogue. I did the work of a lifetime there and I’m so proud.

As President Bartlet would say, “what’s next?”

I was laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday, along with 70% of my incredible team. @teenvogue.com

Thank you to everyone who has reached out. I am so grateful. For nearly 4yrs as Culture Editor, I was dedicated to humanizing and empowering young people. We move.❤️‍🩹🚀

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'Love Is Blind' Is Entering Its Trad Wife Era If you've found it tough to watch, it may be that the cast's desire for "traditional" values reflects of our winnowing rights.

So many couples on Love Is Blind season 9 are looking for "traditional" marriages and gender roles. The show has officially entered its trad wife era www.teenvogue.com/story/love-i...

RFK Jr.'s Autism "Cure" Isn't About Tylenol, It's About "Fixing" Autistic People Like Me Efforts to cure autism are built on the false idea that there is something inherently wrong with us.

"Efforts to cure autism are built on the false idea that there is something inherently wrong with us." Read the full #OpEd asserting that RFK Jr.'s autism “cure” is less about Tylenol than it is "fixing" autistic people who do not want or need fixing. ⬇️

RFK Jr.'s Autism "Cure" Isn't About Tylenol, It's About "Fixing" Autistic People Like Me Efforts to cure autism are built on the false idea that there is something inherently wrong with us.

"When someone promises a cure for something that is not a disease, like autism, that cure becomes a weapon to pathologize the very thing it claims to remedy."

Emma Cieslik on the danger and pain of RFK Jr.'s autism "cure."

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Activist and model Tess Holiday sitting on stage at Teen Vogue Summit. Holliday is dressed in a mesh, hot pink sheer dress and holding a microphone. She is seated next to Brittney Mcnamara, who is wearing a brown and white cown pint dress and a chartreuse blazer. They are both sitting on white couches in front of a backlit black sign that reads "Teen Vogue Summit."

HAPPENING NOW: @tessholliday.bsky.social is our first #TeenVogueSummit keynote speaker in in conversation with @brittneymac15.bsky.social: "Do what you want to do, be what you want to be. Follow that voice in you.... Following my gut is ultimately how I got to where I am now." 👏

AI "Love Island" Wellness Scams Are All Over TikTok. Did You Fall For One?

Have you seen a woman on TikTok claiming to know the "strict beauty rules" producers secretly enforce on Love Island? The secrets are pretty plainly fake, but spoiler alert: so is the woman. This AI scam is designed to sell wellness products.
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Why Lil Nas X's Arrest Is More Proof Police Have No Business Treating the Mentally Ill "Police generally aren’t trained or qualified to respond to mental health crises."

Lil Nas X faces felony charges of "battery" against an officer from an arrest during a mental health crisis in late August. I wrote about my family member's experience with police being sent during mental health episodes—still common for wellness checks—and how it ruined their life.
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Betty Who 'Holding Space' For Reneé Rapp to Date Men Feeds a Tired Homophobic Myth “Questioning whether an out lesbian might some day return to heteronormativity enforces long-held lesbophobic ideas.”

Fellow bisexuals, let’s not do this www.teenvogue.com/story/betty-...

Former Kidfluencer Piper Rockelle Is Ready to Be An Adult and Leave the Past Behind “What if I think I’m going to have all these opportunities… and my life is going to be beautiful, but [it’s not] because of everything that’s still happened?"

Piper Rockelle's childhood was the subject of a recent documentary, "Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing." She talked to Teen Vogue about turning 18 and it's a reflection of what a monetized childhood in front of cameras can do.

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From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger is An American Pastime "At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."

today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American.

"The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."

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📣 Happening next month: The 2025 Four Freedoms Awards will honor leaders advancing democracy, dignity, and justice.

This year’s laureates embody FDR’s bold vision of freedom—from the power of journalism to the fight against hunger.

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We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v

I'm a Former Trad Wife. I Know Exactly Why Young People Voted for Trump The lure of simplicity is understandable, but it's really a tool to spread Christian Nationalism.

In the process of editing a story about gender and was reminded of this story written by @tialevingswriter.bsky.social. Resharing her genius with you: www.teenvogue.com/story/how-tr...

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I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

The Tea App Markets Itself As a Safe Whisper Network. It's Just More Digital Surveillance The biggest red flag is that the Tea app seems to be an attempt to quick-fix on an individual level what is a structural problem — that is, misogyny — via surveillance culture.

"Constant surveillance doesn’t make us safer, but it does erode our ability to connect with people, especially after planting the seed that any of us could become the next viral moment." @leximcmenamin.com connects the Tea app controversy and surveillance culture. www.teenvogue.com/story/the-te...

Inside the Sketchy History of Supplements and Vitamins If you take a supplement, you should read this.

Supplements are ubiquitous, and the marketing around them can be authoritative, chummy, and even confessional — personal promises that you can take control of your health. But there’s a catch: Manufacturers don’t have to prove that their pill, tincture, powder or tea is safe or effective. Read more:

Inside the Sketchy History of Supplements and Vitamins If you take a supplement, you should read this.

Did you know that your vitamins and supplements aren't regulated by the FDA? They might not even contain what you think they do: www.teenvogue.com/story/supple...