As a diversity professional and a teacher, uncomfortable conversations are part of my job. Every day is a new opportunity to explore the words and topics that make people feel awkward, to think about ...

Last month, I saw a post on Instagram for St. Patrick’s Day where an influencer was talking about all the things she does to create her own luck, which boiled down to one thing: hard work. One of her ...

The “P” word can be triggering. Yet, it does not have to be. Privilege can be a difficult concept for people to understand. Because it often requires clarification, this creates a gap between what ...

But I do condemn them for diminishing everything I have personally accomplished, all the hard work I have done in my life, ...

Privilege is such a fraught word. People can’t help but pay attention when they hear it. For many, it’s a dirty word and an even worse concept. It usually implies potentially unfair or undeserved ...

While “privilege” plays an enormous role in the online shaming culture, both of these are examples of people who’ve parlayed privilege accusation into celebrity. Dunham remains in the public eye, and ...

In the past decade or so, liberals and progressives have evolved a new language to talk about social inequality. This new rhetoric — which is, notably, rejected by many on the left — differs from the ...

Turns out “pretty privilege” has its drawbacks. Women on social media are sharing a surprising upside to downplaying their ...

Recently we’ve heard and seen the phrase white privilege all over the media. Some people are blatantly offended or utterly confused about what the phrase means. The term white privilege is not meant ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix In a column last Friday, I discussed “privilege,” which often means money: “She comes from privilege ...

As much as it is discussed and debated, especially lately, there is remarkably little case law concerning “executive privilege”—the idea that there are at least some internal executive branch ...