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Talking While Privileged – A continuing series

May 28, 2014February 7, 2019

I write a lot about privilege and I have a lot of privilege. I’ve long argued that it’s important to be very thoughtful when writing about academic labor while tenured, gender while male, race while white, disability while able-bodied, and so forth. When writing about a given power dynamic, I often have the power by … Continue ReadingTalking While Privileged – A continuing series

Layered Privileges – There Is No Meritocracy

May 14, 2014February 7, 2019

There have been two debates about privilege recently. One was Tal Fortang’s barbaric yop that he, Princeton undergrad, is not privileged by his whiteness, because his family was persecuted by the Nazis. The second was a Thought Catalog essay on female privilege. The first essay demonstrated two key facts: Tal Fortgang does not understand the concept … Continue ReadingLayered Privileges – There Is No Meritocracy