The “P” word can be triggering. Yet, it does not have to be. Privilege can be a difficult concept for people to understand. Because it often requires clarification, this creates a gap between what ...

Privilege is not a moral medal nor a mark of shame. It is context. It is the room we begin in. But rooms change. Doors open and close. Windows widen and narrow. What matters is how we move within them ...

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For now, one small piece I can say is that privilege very often comes with a weight of guilt and/or shame that are not dealt with, and that take our attention. The discomfort of those feelings is so ...

When reading a book I did not love, Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald, I landed on a sentence that lit up in bright neon before my eyes. I read the sentence over again thinking, this can’t be ...