Teenager Luis Torres was fed up of the dictionary’s narrow definition of the word ‘nude’. So he changed it.
Until now, the Merriam-Webster dictionary has defined ‘nude’ as – in addition to the standard ‘having no clothes on’ – ‘having the colour of a white person’s skin’, conforming to the narrow stereotypes of nude as a colour matching only certain types of skin (makeup and underwear companies, we’re looking at you).
A lot of people weren’t pleased with this, because seriously, nude is a state of being (ie. naked), not a colour specific to white skin.