Posted on February 16, 2012 by: Kris Gowen, originally posted on Kris Gowens Blog I was going to try to come up with a fancier more accessible title, but I can’t right now. But I sure better by May! I’ve been invited to speak at an bullying awareness event in Austin Texas this May. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Privilege’
Privilege? What’s that supposed to mean?
Posted: December 3, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Activists, Age, Citizen, Egalitarian, Gender, Homeless, Oppression, Peggy McIntosh, People of Color, Privilege, Queer, Race, Sex, STI, United States, White person
As a young white person involved in the activist community I have talked a lot about the word “privilege” and what it means. To me privilege is a word I use to describe unearned benefits given to me by societies and institutions and individuals that I interact with-in the United States. For instance, I am [...]
Introducing Tessara
Posted: October 13, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, Bigots, CHATmosphere, Fan-fiction, Gender Queer, HIV, Introducing, Mayhem, Oregon, Pansexual, Portland, Privilege, Sex, Sexuality, SMYRC, Stigma, Tessara
Name: Tessara/Mayhem Age: 21 Gender Identity: Genderqueer Preferred Pronoun: “they/them/their” Sexual Orientation: Pansexual Location: Portland, Oregon Likes: Reading, writing poetry & fan-fiction, knitting, educating around youth sexuality Dislikes: Street harassment, unearned privilege, bigots, politicians who prevaricate, stigma I have some poetry coming up on the blog- keep an eye out for it! Some of it’s [...]
