


Teen Vogue published a story last summer titled “Who’s Afraid of Liv Hewson?” The cover image showed Hewson, a 28-year-old actress who identifies as non-binary, posing in an open blazer, revealing the scarred remains of her right breast after having had a bilateral mastectomy.
Hewson struggled with anorexia and then gender dysphoria, according to Teen Vogue. But, “at the same time, around 16, Hewson began learning about feminism and queer theory” — it was then that she “started to feel things click into place.”
Of course, surgically removing healthy breast tissue isn’t a cure to self-harm but rather another, extreme manifestation of it. A more suitable title for the story, then, might have been, “Who’s Afraid of Glamorizing Self-Harm in a Publication Marketed to Teenage Girls?”
Teen Vogue is fearless on this front. Won’t someone give them a medal?