"no, i don't speak [fill-in-the-blank foreign language], but at least i can read the numbers,
cause they're in english."
"엘레베이터"
"it's so gross to eat with your hands"
"but no, if your culture has no written history, how can we possibly know it ever existed?"
"cause i'm standing right here in front of you."
*shakes head*
"well, you're going to need a colonizer-approved piece of paper that allows you to study your culture so that you can write about it, so that a committee of colonizers can acknowledge that your hypothesis about your culture's existence can be supported by peer-reviewed research and thereby acknowledged."
"and then you'll return us our autonomy?"
*shrug*
"if your research supports your claims, the committee will have no other choice."
"no single person made this decision; we are a fully-democratic institution."
"do you have the instructions?"
[on weekdays] "i don't understand why poor people can't just work harder.
[on weekends] "poverty in america is a crime against humanity!"
"jesus loves you"
"i want to represent an under-represented woman, Maria Callas, because, even though she was the greatest voice of an era, her nose, her nose alone, was the reason why we don't know her name as a country, and so, i've decided to portray her with the 'right' nose."
Vogue in 2025:
- winter
- 2 Black women share the dual-cover issue
- march
- 1 white gurl
- april
- 1 white gurl
- may
- 4 Black men share the covers for the multi-cover issue
- summer
- 1 white gurl
- august
- 1 white gurl
- september
- 1 white gurl
- october
- 2 white gurls (one of whom was april's 1 white gurl)
- november
- 3 women share a multi-cover issue (one Black woman, one Asian woman, one white gurl)
- december
- 1 white dickwipe