I related a lot to this piece, especially as a child of recent immigrants myself. As an Asian person, I often feel lost in the sea of oppression discourse. I am not White and I do not have the privilege of being White, but as a light-skinned, middle-class person, I am also more privileged than a lot of people.

Thank you for explaining privilege so coherently. We need more nuanced pieces about privilege. Often people hear “privilege” and they automatically feel attacked. There are plenty of White, cis, straight men who are less privileged than me and I fully acknowledge that. But these men also don’t erase my lived experience as a queer, albeit well-of and educated woman of colour.

Privilege and oppression are complex, multi-dimensional concepts that require patience to understand, as well as patience to react in a productive way.