Reposted from The Brown and White: While pursuing the humanities and social science sections of any library, you’re likely to come across a laundry list of politically-charged and contested terms: white privilege, male privilege, the gender gap, heteronormativity, rape culture, American exceptionalism and first world problems. Well, okay, maybe not that last one. These highbrowContinue reading “Privilege amongst the privileged; discussing “the terms” at Lehigh University”
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Hard conversations
Have you ever noticed that on Facebook and other message boards, conversations get started about one topic, and then all of a sudden, talking points about “reverse racism” and “Al Sharpton” and “white privilege” and “fox news” and other such things get brought up and all of a sudden, the thread goes from what itContinue reading “Hard conversations”
How to Talk to Someone about Privilege Who Doesn’t Know What That Is
View Original Post on EverydayFeminism.com (note: This is posted here in its entirety for your convenience, but you should definitely click the link and read it on everydayfeminism.com) December 7, 2012 by Jamie Utt I once published a piece about white privilege, and my white friend’s dad lost it. He read it and immediately calledContinue reading “How to Talk to Someone about Privilege Who Doesn’t Know What That Is”
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