Mrs. Fletcher

by Tom Perrotta

She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.

As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using it to silence or ignore the voices of those without the same unearned advantages, who had more of a right to speak on many, many subjects than she did.