privileges

Standing Up for Justice

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This is the original version of a video that's been making rounds on social media. I created the transcript below followed by a short essay that complements the video and a link to an article entitled Erasure, resistance and agency: lessons on solidarity from Palestinian higher education (August 2026). How do you feel watching this … Continue reading Standing Up for Justice

 I Could Have Played It Safe

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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves ‘naturally’ elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.” -C. … Continue reading  I Could Have Played It Safe