“I wish the talented team at Teen Vogue the absolute best moving forward,” she said. She would have been the third Black woman to serve as Teen Vogue’s top editor, after Lindsay Peoples Wagner and Elaine Welteroth. Screenshots of the tweets were recirculated on social media after her hiring at Teen Vogue was announced on March 5. “I am so sorry to have used such hurtful and inexcusable language.”As the criticism of her hiring mounted, Ulta Beauty and Burt’s Bees, major advertisers with Teen Vogue, suspended their campaigns with the publication. The scrutiny of her tweets has come at a time of heightened concern about violence and harassment directed against Asian-Americans.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2021 17:40 UTC