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Last year I only read entries that were written as part of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ibarw and didn't participate in debate, meta-reading or discussion.
Mainly because I didn't feel I had much to add.
Re-reading some of the entries from last year and trying to sponge some inspiration I've come to the conclusion that I didn't feel I have much to add, nor do I feel I have much to add to anti-racist discourse, is because I'm a member of an Oppressing and Occupying population and class.
It is common in certain types of papers to establish the various identities of the author so that one reading may know through what prism they are going to receiving this information.
On the interwebs I've seen this being called unloading the privilege knapsack.
Here goes: I am White, Upwardly Mobile and Cisgendered*.
Those three identifiers place me smack in the middle of the Oppressing population and class. The fact that I am Feminist, Queer and a Woman do little to negate those big three.
( In which I rant )
More to come, time and studies permitting.
Notes
*Someone whose gender identity has only ever been experienced as physically and mentally aligned, that is to say, not transgendered.
**Mainly Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian and other Slavik Jews that aren't Russian, Polish and Romanian (I don't know what makes the distinction, only that it exists).
ibarw and didn't participate in debate, meta-reading or discussion. Mainly because I didn't feel I had much to add.
Re-reading some of the entries from last year and trying to sponge some inspiration I've come to the conclusion that I didn't feel I have much to add, nor do I feel I have much to add to anti-racist discourse, is because I'm a member of an Oppressing and Occupying population and class.
It is common in certain types of papers to establish the various identities of the author so that one reading may know through what prism they are going to receiving this information.
On the interwebs I've seen this being called unloading the privilege knapsack.
Here goes: I am White, Upwardly Mobile and Cisgendered*.
Those three identifiers place me smack in the middle of the Oppressing population and class. The fact that I am Feminist, Queer and a Woman do little to negate those big three.
( In which I rant )
More to come, time and studies permitting.
Notes
*Someone whose gender identity has only ever been experienced as physically and mentally aligned, that is to say, not transgendered.
**Mainly Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian and other Slavik Jews that aren't Russian, Polish and Romanian (I don't know what makes the distinction, only that it exists).
