Aja Barber

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We can never get enough handy gift guides, so we asked our lovely writer Aja what she has planned for her holiday shopping this year.

It’s going to be a very frugal holiday season in 2017. Let’s get crafting and make homemade holiday presents for everyone!

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

“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."

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.

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

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?

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