...see we're about to need this. (in case you've not read it, the following is an expansion...-- ED ) White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html "I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group" Lesbian Nation http://www.cultureghost.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&...

Following a painful email thread at work . . . . DEAR WORLD: There is NO SUCH THING as "reverse sexism" or "reverse racism." GENTLEMEN: you are in possession of a whole suitcase of male privilege. WHITE PEOPLE: we've got a knapsack of our own. WHITE GENTLEMEN: through the magic of intersectionality, you have been granted a freightliner full of this privilege stuff. The ESSENCE OF SEXISM is ...

White privilege

Some time ago, I promised to make a post on White Privilege And How I Don't Have It. I probably ought to make entries about other things first - What My Degree Has Done For Me, for one, and also The Visit of OMG 1.875 - but a couple of things have happened on two successive days to make me want to make this post first. These are not big things. They are not things of any note at all. And yet, etc...

Otherwise

An continuing International Blog Against Racism Week . The answers. 1. I already said this. How the hell do you raise a child for two years without exposing them once to someone from a different ethnic group? It's surprisingly easy. This is one of the items in the Invisible Knapsack . It's not that Mom was trying to keep me (and the rest of the family) isolated. But she wasn't exactly making...