Li Charmaine Anne
1 min readMar 18, 2020

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Love it. I always try to remember that each person’s struggles is unique. Being poor, belonging to a certain race, loving a certain sex doesn’t automatically make your life more challenging than the next person, but it can offer unique challenges based on other things in your life. I’m a queer, woman of colour myself, but I’m way, way more privileged than a lot of straight white men out there at least in financial terms because I was lucky to be born in a financially stable, middle-class household that could afford me piano lessons. Of course, those same straight white men have benefits that I don’t have. They will feel safer walking at night, they will feel safer kissing their partner in public. There is no point in comparing who has it worse, me or that straight white guy; on the whole, we walk life differently, but in many ways, my walk is more challenging than his and in many ways, his is more challenging than mine.

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Li Charmaine Anne
Li Charmaine Anne

Written by Li Charmaine Anne

(She/They) Author on unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver, Canada). At work on first novel. Get links to read my stuff for free: https://bit.ly/2MleRqJ

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