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I highly recommend listening to Louiza Doran’s podcast. You won’t be sorry. One of her main take-aways is that we in the U.S. live in a society layered in privilege and systemic oppression. Unfortunately, often this system often can’t be seen, but it sure is felt especially by marginalized people. People who are not white, male, cis-gendered, whose first language is English in the USA, economically-secure, etc.
We know that access to education, health care, safety, clean water, economic security, jobs, housing is not equal.
If we don’t try to see and understand the unseen system, we are complicit in reproducing systems of harm.
A place where I am starting is to:
1) try to make zero assumptions about the identity of people I meet. This is not easy as most of us—including me—have grown up in a world filled with assumptions based on the identities we see.
2) try to understand my whiteness by Studying Group Relations and reading books like Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.
3) Having conversations with friends and family.
4) Trying to not let shame immobilize me when I make a mistake. Instead checking in with the person whom I may have harmed, owning my mistake, apologizing and trying to learn from it.