The second installment by “IMA READ” - “Vogue” - took the form of a publication, with a special focus on the discourse of voguing and ball culture, and subsequently; the politics of cultural appropriation of LGBTQ2I+ subcultures by otherwise unrelated groups.

Documentaries such as Paris Is Burning have brought international and mainstream attention to what originally was - and predominantly still is - an active counterculture. Subsequently, the influence of voguing has spread beyond North America and outside of LGBTQ2I+, Black, POC communities. The practice is increasingly seen referenced within pop-culture (queue Miley Cyrus); giving rise to debate over cultural ownership and further questions of who should, and who should not, be enabled to appropriate the inherently political practice.

With this publication of selected readings, "IMA READ" aimed to focus critical and reflexive attention to the history of voguing and ball culture, its origins within Black, POC and LGBTQ2I+ communities, and accordingly, the politics of appropriation of the practice, for example, by various pop-culture agents - from Madonna to FKA Twigs.

‘Chapter Two’ was therefore an introductory education on what, and why, voguing is; how its appropriation is affected by unrelated groups - what is harmful about this practice, and finally, why “Vogue is not for you”.