'Community and solidarity is how we move forward. It’s how we find light in the dark.' Read more from Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief versharma on her Diwali celebration hosted by VP ⬇️
that she realized “each one of the guests at the party did have something in common: we were all self-made. … It wasn’t our pedigree, but rather the degree of effort we worked on our goals, that unites us. None of us there came from the beauty, fitness, TV, news or fashion industry, respectively. And yet, [we] climbed [our] way up.” wrote of the event
It sounds cliche to say that “you have to see it to be it”; it’s also not entirely true, as many of the trailblazing guests were the first to mark a certain level of achievement in their fields. But it was beautiful to turn around everywhere and see South Asians of all ages meeting and greeting each other, congratulating each other on their latest personal or professional accomplishments, and the young dancers taking it all in — all of us, quite literally, seeing it.
“I followed VP Kamala Harris as a senator running for President…for hours every day in 2019,” she continued. “I’ve never seen her publicly embrace her South Asian side as much as she did last night. . It was striking.”