Week Nine, Book Nine: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo If you are a white person, you are definitely racist. Because if you are white, you have grown up with white […]
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Tag: privilege
The Importance of Being a Wet Blanket or Is Mindfulness Cultural Appropriation?
Picture ten white girls sitting around a table wearing Afro wigs. Each of us was tall, thin, in stiletto heels, and sporting a white dress to contrast with our hair. That was me with my […]
This Is My Truth
I come from a place of such incredible privilege that it’s embarrassing and yet I’m still having a hard time making ends meet. This is a confusing truth. I am a white able-bodied woman, by […]
What Do I Do About Woody Allen?
Allegations, accusations, disclosures, confessions, denials, court transcripts, police reports, whisper networks, public statements, purges, pulled movies, cancelled shows, stone cold silence, people taking to Twitter, people taking Twitter hiatuses. We are being splattered daily with […]