Aja Barber

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Can women have it all? Just kidding! I hate that question!

I may not be thrilled to vote for her, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the misogyny and toxic masculinity we fight so hard against control the campaign narrative of the first major woman presidential candidate.

“I love my husband President Barack Obama and our children, Sasha and Malia,” ”

Marc Jacobs claims he doesn't "see" color, but people of color beg to differ. Whether he recognizes it or not, Jacobs is part of the cultural appropriation problem, turning black natural hair into his own "trend."

There are so few people in this world who can bring very many strong, stoic people to their knees in the hour of death.

Have we all been problematic in the past? Oh hell yes. I know I have.

I watched again and again, as reporters asked President Trump news related questions, and repeatedly rephrased their questions, in hopes of receiving anything close to a credible answer. As he continued to discredit the press by telling them their questions weren’t “nice,” I felt more and more as if I was living in some bizarro universe where the President is actually a huge baby.

In 2015, to be a woman (and a black woman at that) among the general public means having to keep your defenses up.

If gentrification bothers you, the first thing you have to ask yourself is “Am I part of the problem?” The world is better when it’s more diverse