Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readMar 28, 2021

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All White people, no matter their class or wealth have never faced some types of oppression that all Black people, no matter how wealthy or famous or whatever have faced routinely. Isn't that obvious?

Here's a quick and easy way to look at it: If you have never had the Supreme Court decide whether or not you have the same rights as others, you have privilege. But, privilege is also intersectional. You can have privilege in one area and oppression in another.

"This means that one person can experience both privilege and oppression (for example, they may experience racial privilege for being white, but class oppression for being working class). Privilege and oppression can also intersect with one another to create unique experiences of a specific aspect of their identity. For example, a trans woman who is very affluent has a very different experience of transphobia and cissexism than a transwoman who is very poor. She would, for instance, have better access to resources, medical care, and a safe place to live compared to a transwoman who is working class. While both women experience oppression for being trans, their experiences of that oppression are very different due to the presence or absence of class privilege.” (1)

https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/examples-of-privilege-5c15ea5ddb49

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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