Teen Vogue

I think that's absolutely true and important for them to know.

And that was one of the reasons why I used to love that Teen Vogue existed for them for a little while.

I think they've pulled back on that for them and stuff.

But I mean, I was one year too young to be able to vote for Ann Richards when she ran for governor a second term.

Even as the album's second-week chart position slipped behind Now 7, the group still remained visible, present, and working.

The fall issue of Teen Vogue was released in August, and it offered a different kind of snapshot of NSYNC.

Lighter on the surface, but also revealing in specific ways.

The article described Joey and Chris with obvious exhaustion.

He also said that he'd love to have just three days in a row where he didn't have to think about work, but he already knew that was impossible.

When asked about the first thought that Lance has in the morning, he said it was, what city am I in? These were small comments, but together they painted the picture of a group that was running on obligation and adrenaline.

There is one detail from the Teen Vogue interview that's worth flagging for later.

When addressing the kinds of things that get printed about them in tabloids, Justin joked that, "...one week I was engaged, the next week I was gay, and the third week I was going solo." Two of those rumors were real, not in the sense that they were true, but these were rumors that had been documented as circulating.

She is the author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, which is a fantastic book.

And her writing on immigration policy and organizing has been published in Truthout, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and The Forge, and in edited volumes like The Jail is Everywhere, Resisting Borders, and Technologies of Violence and Transformative Planning.

She's also appeared in many national...

That's from your bio online.

We're both doing all kinds of different things.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm the former beauty director of Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, and Retailer Moda Operandi, and I am sitting across from the multi, multi, multi-talented-

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I love that.

That's how I started initially when I was working at Gap and I started writing articles like freelance for Refinery29, Teen Vogue and stuff.

I just was craving and needed something that was outside of my job.

I needed to do something that felt like a creative output.

On today's episode, part one of our season 10 opening three-part series on performative authenticity, we'll break down this simple country lawyer routine, examining how it creates a hollow sense of folksiness informed not by genuine economic populism or a sense of what real hardship is, but by superficial down-home aesthetics, manufactures vague and false notions of real America, and launders the preferred agenda of wealthy donors as the organic preferences of ma and pa heartland.

Later on the show, we'll be speaking with John Patrick Leary, a public school social studies teacher in Philadelphia, contributor to outlets like Teen Vogue, The Baffler, and The New Republic, and author of the books Keywords, The New Language of Capitalism, and Keywords for Capitalism, Power, Society, and Politics, both of which were published by Haymarket Books.

He's also the author of A Cultural History of Underdevelopment, Latin America in the U.S.

Imagination, which was published by the University of Virginia Press.

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discuss this more, we're now going to be joined by John Patrick Leary.

He's a public school social studies teacher in Philadelphia, a contributor to outlets like Teen Vogue, The Baffler, and The New Republic, and author of the books Keywords, The New Language of Capitalism, and Keywords for Capitalism, Power, Society, Politics, both of which were published by Haymarket Books, as well as the book A Cultural History of Underdevelopment, Latin America and the U.S.

Imagination, which was published by University of Virginia Press.

She writes about the realities of religious trauma, evangelical patriarchy, and the trad wife life, decoding the fundamentalist influences in our news and culture.

Her work and quotes have appeared in Teen Vogue, Salon, Newsweek, and the Huffington Post.

She's an experienced interviewee, speaker, and podcast guest, and has appeared in the hit Amazon docuseries, Shiny Happy People.

Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, she is the mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, hike, paint, and daydream.

And then my sister and I actually walked to Panda Express, got some food, came back, and I think I had a couple more, or maybe I'm mixing it up.

After that, I believe the next thing was Les Alfred's live podcast for the She's So Lucky podcast with Elaine Welteroth, who used to be the editor-in-chief at Teen Vogue, has now founded an organization called Birth Fund, and that was one of my favorite conversations of the day.

And so we sat in the indoor room, which was nice 'cause there was a little AC, and we got to enjoy that conversation, connected with a few people who were sitting beside us.

And then from there, I had another connect meeting with somebody, and then I believe it was close to the time where the last two main sessions of the day were on the main stage.