Maciera remembers posting “passionate” screeds on her accounts when she was younger, regardless of how many people saw them then. “Having this platform that we have and writing about things on social media, speaking about things now, feels like such a privilege, to have that platform and to know that certain people are listening,” Maciera says.
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“If you have that platform and you care about things that are going on around you, which you should, regardless of whether they affect you or not —” here Maciera lists off queer people, people of color, and poor people — “If people with privileges stopped hiding behind that privilege, and educated themselves on the struggles of real people around them, then it these issues would be so much easier to tackle, and people would feel so much less alone… To not do that is an awful shame, and it’s an awful waste.”
When I ask if they have anything else to tell Teen Vogue readers, they’re ready: “F*ck your president-elect. F*ck Project 2025. F*ck America, f*ck the UK,” Lunny says immediately. “Trans lives matter.”
“Free Palestine and all occupied countries,” Maciera chimes in.
“F*ck colonization,” Lunny picks up. “F*ck the patriarchy and the capitalist social system that we’ve built which is detrimental to everybody who is not a straight, white cis man — and even to them, it is detrimental, they just don’t know it.” In a move representative of their overall vibe, they concluded their list with invective against Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, and Elon Musk that we can’t print here — but if you want to hear it, their US tour starts April 30 in New York City.
