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#92 Consumerism, Colonialism & Money Management with Aja Barber

Adulting

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I Just Could Not Write About Race

I was really fed up with the ways in which the system constantly promoted people who were already privileged while also claiming that fashion is this democratic landscape that anyone can succeed and play in. And I began to also write about race separately. It was you know the era of Barack Obama and living in America. All of a sudden all of the stuff that we try and sweep under the rug in our society just came bubbling straight to the top like some sort of yucky soup. We've literally created this system through hundreds and hundreds of years of colonization where we use certain people's resources and labor forces to create these systemswhich we then trap ourselves in. But I think it's actually essential to all

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