A personal essay in which Narratively deputy editor Lilly Dancyger writes about dealing with people’s mistaken assumptions about the economics of her upbringing. A high-school dropout who later worked her way through college and graduate school, Dancyger grew up poor — the daughter of a single mother who was a recovering heroin addict. In New […]
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‘You Can Help in Ways That I Cannot’: Ijeoma Oluo on Putting Your White Privilege to Work Against Racism
A manifesto of the anti-racist movement for white people and others who are just joining.
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Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed
Writer Ijeoma Oluo schools well-meaning white people–who are late to the party–in the hard, thankless work of relinquishing their unearned privilege and fighting racism.
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Elizabeth Gilbert on Putting Her Privilege to Work
Discussing how privilege factors into Gilbert’s story and success.