Aja Barber

Aja Barber gives us her first-hand account of the Women's March — the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Hiiiiii people! These issues aren’t going away. And neither am I. So scroll on by if it bothers you.

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

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

I refuse to write some sort of inane rubbish about how sweatshirts are the new sweatshirt.

How does one advertisement go so magnificently wrong, managing to center whiteness in the story of the battles of marginalized people, while playing down the horrific effects of police brutality and concluding in a white savior grand finale?

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.

Hugh Hefner - people either love him or hate him, and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of room for middle ground. He was an abuser and civil rights advocate.

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