Laura Harrier, Logan Browning, Aja Naomi King, Amara La Negra, and Diane Guerrero Talk Representation in Hollywood

Think you know ambitious crossovers? At the Teen Vogue Summit on Friday (June 1), Laura Harrier (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Aja Naomi King (How to Get Away With Murder), Amara La Negra (Love & Hip-Hop: Miami), Logan Browning (Dear White People), and Diane Guerrero (Orange is the New Black) joined together in a truly iconic panel to discuss activism, racism, and representation in the media.

Laura, who stars in Spider-Man as Liz, kicked off the discussion by plainly stating why she's an activist: "I'm close to activism because I'm a black woman in America." The rest of the group agreed in their own ways, and went on to address their own careers and how they're impacted by the lack of fully-fledged roles for women of color in movies and on TV. Diane, who plays Maritza Ramos on OITNB, talked about the dichotomy between wanting any work in Hollywood and wanting to seek out characters that are real and three-dimensional. She said, "I remember at first, just getting a job was it. That wasn't even in my mind. Of course I didn't want to go out and play a one dimensional character, but at the beginning you thought you had no say, you had no power."

Aja added on to that sentiment, saying, "It's the little things when you have a moment to do something that feels more real or natural." She cited an example from OITNB, where her character Michaela Pratt wears a head wrap to sleep: "If I'm going to go to bed, I wanna put a head wrap on because that's what I would do, especially if I'm comfortable in my relationship with someone. And for a lot of women online that was a big deal to them, to see that, because it feels honest. You're seeing something that reflects yourself."

The women also got real about what's available as far as opportunities in Hollywood, and whether or not they feel pressure to take certain roles because they, like everyone else, need to pay bills. Amara said she was "realistic" about jobs. "If I have the opportunity to be in a series or a soap opera or whatever it may be and it's not necessarily a character I want to be, to me it's still an accomplishment to have an Afro-Latina playing something, anything," she explained. "Being given the opportunity is good enough for me in the moment."

Logan, who plays Samantha White on Dear White People echoed the difficulties of finding quality opportunities in the entertainment industry. "You deserve more than good enough," she urged, stressing that it doesn't fly for Hollywood to offer people the bare minimum anymore. "It gets me in the pit of my stomach that this is the world we live in."

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