Aja Romano
Senior Culture Writer
Aja Romano is a senior culture reporter for Vox, focusing on the ethics of culture, as well as criticism and commentary on internet culture, movies, TV, theater, and other media. After starting out in local news, they spent many years as a theater reviewer and freelancer. They joined the Daily Dot in 2012 as a staff reporter, where they were one of the first journalists to cover Gamergate and many adjacent aspects of internet culture, and the alt-right’s convergence with mainstream US politics. Since joining Vox in 2016, they’ve also become known as an authority on “cancel culture” after several definitive pieces outlining the origins and evolution of the concept.
Aja is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute. They’re a frequent guest on podcasts, panels, and news media, speaking to a broad range of topics, including internet and pop culture, fandom, online extremism, and probably whatever you’re arguing about on social media this week. Find them on Twitter @ajaromano.
Latest articles by Aja Romano
The bestseller proves Trump’s VP pick has abiding disdain for absolutely everyone.
The shooting wasn’t staged, but conspiratorial thinking has become widespread in our paranoid age.
Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here's what happened.
Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
How the mysterious death of a Boston cop led to an intense trial, a media circus, and a referendum on policing.
Horizon is a baffling, incoherent mess. Kevin Costner making it was probably inevitable.
No, demons will not possess you if you use one.
The show’s first queer storylines have been met with backlash, homophobia, and misogynoir.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel reveals a period of turbulence and upheaval for Daenerys’s formidable family.
Alicent’s green dress gives us the skeleton key to the Targaryen schism.