Jenna Landon

Stretching Our Thinking

Check(list) Your Privilege

  • March 16, 2022 at 6:08 PM
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I also took the Buzzfeed quiz, along with three of the others. It was interesting to me, because the result that I got was that I wasn't privileged, but I really am in so many ways. I have a complicated intersectional identity that devalues me because I am femme, bi, trans, fat, and have been desperately poor, but I am also white, mostly able-bodied, educated, and in a decent place financially now. I also took three more specific checklists, and those were illuminating because they highlighted some things that people can take for granted, like being sure that almost any house/apartment I look at I will be able to move through without issue. I am grateful for the privileges that I have, and I really want to work towards a society where those privileges are available to all.