🎤 VOGUE 73 QUESTIONS 📰

Vogue 73 Questions

1. What’s your favorite time of day?

11AM-12PM. It's the perfect time between morning and afternoon.

2. What’s your biggest weakness?

My tummy.

3. What’s your biggest strength?

My heart.

4. What’s the biggest learning experience you’ve had?

When I left home at 15.

5. What’s your idea of a perfect date?

Doing 11 things before midnight, Paper Towns style. Love a romantic heist.

6. What’s one vice you wish you could give up?

Sitting down so much.

7. What’s a cause that’s important to you?

Animal rights, child protection, women's rights, black supremacy, socialism... so many.

8. What’s the best compliment you have ever received?

That I'm a shooting star, bright and beautiful but leave too soon. It's true.

9. When do you feel the most inspired?

When I'm doing what I love.

10. Sweet or savory?

Sweet.

11. What song can you listen to on repeat?

Let's check spotify. So the top one is Childlike Things by FKA Twigs ft North West. Makes sense because I was just listening to that in the car yesterday.

12. What makes you smile the most?

Where I've been, am, and going.

13. What’s one thing people don’t know about you?

I used to do martials arts as a kid. Boxing, tai chi, karate, krav maga, BJJ, the lot.

14. Heels or flats or sneakers?

Sneakers, unless boots are an option.

15. Vintage or new?

Vintage. All day.

16. What are three things you can’t live without?

My phone. My water jug. And... my blanket.

17. Window or aisle seat?

Aisle. The window view scares me and I need quick access to the bathroom at all times. Blame the water.

18. What’s your current tv character obsession?

Uhtred from The Last Kingdom. That's my boy.

19. Leather or lace?

Depends on the day.

20. What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done in your life?

Climb Stone Mountain despite being afraid of heights.

21. How would you define yourself in three words?

Businesswoman. Imagineer. Rockstar.

22. What’s your current favorite piece of clothing that you own?

My Calvin Klein pink pencil skirt. It's a collector's item.

23. What’s a must-have clothing item everyone should own?

A watch, if that counts.

24. What’s inspiring you in life right now?

History. Learning it and making it.

25. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received?

"Don't say you can't do something. You can do anything you want. It's either you will or won't." My nana said that to me once.

26. What’s your pet peeve?

Dying young.

27. Diamonds or pearls?

I love pearls, but I'm going with Madam Marilyn. Diamonds.

28. What’s something you notice about someone when you first meet them?

Their posture, eye contact, and how they dress.

29. What’s your biggest regret?

Mm. Student loans.

30. What’s heavily played on your playlist right now?

Shots by Natalie Nunn, not going to lie.

31. What’s your favorite board game?

Sorry. No, literally. Sorry. It's a classic.

32. What’s your guilty pleasure?

Reading too many books at once.

33. What book did you most recently finish?

I finished the Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum. Fun fact: I watched the film a year ago and got inspired to make a literature club. A year later, I'm reading the book with my own literature club. Full circle.

34. What are you currently reading?

Okay, buckle up. Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis; The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Lord of the Flies by William Golding; and Odyssey by Homer.

35. How do you start your day?

By thanking God, blowing a kiss to my 2025 creativity award, and saying good morning to myself and my posters.

36. What’s your favorite holiday?

Eid, Ramadan, and Halloween.

37. If you could raid one woman’s closet, who would it be?

Chanel Oberlin.

38. If you could switch lives with one person for a day, who would it be?

Donald Trump. I'd expose myself and the government, then press all the nukes on the genocidal countries.

39. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to try but you’ve been too scared to do?

Kiss a woman.

40. What’s the one thing you wish you knew at age 19?

That her effort is going to be worth it.

41. Besides your phone or wallet, what are a couple of must have handbag items?

Mace, switchblade, pen, chapstick, notepad, taser, and condoms.

42. If you were not a writer, what would you be doing?

Gee... I dunno. I'd probably be in journalism, but that's writing. So I'd be an architect. Building worlds.

43. What’s something you can’t do?

Nothing.

44. Where was the best vacation you’ve ever taken?

Tybee Island, circa 2015. The best year of the 2010s.

45. What’s one city you’ve always dreamed of travelling to?

Paris and Husavik.

46. What’s something you always travel with?

My ID, GPS, money, camera, and self-defense weapons.

47. Favorite food?

Chicken salad.

48. Favorite dessert?

Apple pie.

49. Favorite snack?

Chips.

50. What’s a movie that made you cry?

Maze Runner: Death Cure. RIP Newt.

51. What’s your favorite movie of the last five years?

Hm... lemme check my Letterboxd. [pause] Okay, so it's Scott Pilgrim vs the World. The film got me through 2020-2021, and the series got me through 2024. I also read the comic in '24, which exceeded my expectations. Forever a fan.

52. What’s the one talent you wish you had?

Running w/o getting tired and crocheting. 

53. What’s your favorite exercise?

Jogging, lifting weights, and ab workouts.

54. What’s your favorite band?

NIRVANA. Ooh- no, but One Direction... Damn. Kurt Cobain... Liam Payne... Zayn Malik... Krist Novoselic. Damn... Okay. I love 1D, but NIRVANA is imprinted in my soul.

55. What’s your favorite fast food order?

Chicken tenders w/ fries or chicken sandwich - fried - with fries. No drink unless it's iced water.

56. What’s something you don’t want to be doing in 10 years?

Dead.

57. What’s the cutest thing on planet earth?

Kitties.

58. What’s the best thing that happened this year?

Omg... God, so much. I went my first pride parade. That was a core memory.

59. What’s your favorite cocktail?

I don't drink.

60. Which movie makes you laugh the hardest?

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

61. What do you usually eat for dinner?

Hash browns and grapes.

62. What do you usually eat for lunch?

Depends.

63. What do you usually eat for breakfast?

A banana or nothing.

64. What’s your favorite thing in the world?

Myself. The ocean. The wildlife. Sunsets. Historical sites. Fashion. Rock 'n roll. Conducting business. Dressing up. Writing. Dreaming. Listening to music. There's so much. If I had to pick one outside of myself, it'd be nostalgia. That sums it up.

65. What’s your favorite color?

Beige.

66. What color clothing do you wear the most?

Black.

67. What are three words to describe living in America?

Get. Me. Out.

68. Do you like surprises?

No, not unless I was involved in the planning.

69. What’s one thing you had to learn the hard way?

That money means a lot.

70. What’s something you’re tired of?

Fake people.

71. Who do you turn to when you’re sad?

God, my therapist, and my friends.

72. What’s a trend you would like to see disappear forever?

Trends.

73.What did you want to do with your life at the age of 12?

This. [Okay, have a good one, Aqeelah]. Heheh, take care. Byeee.