Teen Vogue: controversy continues after editor-in-chief apologizes for anti-Asian tweets

Ulta Beauty ‘paused’ advertising campaign with the magazine because of Alexi McCammond’s tweets Controversy around the new Teen Vogue editor-in-chief, Alexi McCammond, continues after she apologized for tweeting anti-Asian remarks in 2011. McCammond apologised for the tweets in 2019 and again this week, calling them “offensive, idiotic” posts. On Thursday she posted a new statement to Twitter in which she said: “I’ve dedicated my career to giving a voice to the voiceless, and the last thing I’d ever want is to make anyone – especially our Asian brothers and sisters in particular – feel more invisible,” she wrote. “And I know that that is a unique source of pain in all of this, too: That historically the AAPI [Asian American and Pacific Islander] community has been left out or ignored in critical conversations around race, racism, justice and equality. I am determined to play a part in changing that.” Continue reading...
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