People are sometimes resistant to the idea of privilege, because they fear that admitting privilege will invalidate the hardships they do face. But that’s not how it works. You can have privilege and still have problems. Your life can still be hard even if you were born with certain privileges, like having a naturally thinner body, or being born white, straight, rich, or whatever. All of those privileges are luck, luck of fitting in with ease, and they come with benefits that other people don’t experience—and that we often take for granted. Becoming aware of the things we have taken for
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