The recent episode honoring bell hooks with Darnell Moore and Imani Perry got Laverne thinking even more about ideas around privilege. Just because you have it, doesn’t make you bad. Just because someone else has it doesn’t make them an oppressor. Privilege is relative. You can be the most privileged person in one room and the least privileged person in the next. Perhaps it’s time to stop blaming other people, look also at ourselves, and move forward together. Just some thoughts.

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Links of Interest:

After Racist Tweet, Roseanne Barr’s Show Is Canceled by ABC (NYT, 2018)

Privilege and Intersectionality (Rider University)

Other Episodes Mentioned or Relevant:

Class Shaming w/ Mary O’Hara

Beauty as Capital w/ Kimberly Foster

Black Women Are Enough w/ Sarah Adeyinka Skold

CREDITS:

Executive Producers: Sandie Bailey, Alex Alcheh, Lauren Hohman, Tyler Klang & Gabrielle Collins

Producer & Editor: Brooke Peterson-Bell

Associate Producer: Akiya McKnight

The recent episode honoring bell hooks with Darnell Moore and Imani Perry got Laverne thinking even more about ideas around privilege. Just because you have it, doesn’t make you bad. Just because someone else has it doesn’t make them an oppressor. Privilege is relative. You can be the most privileged person in one room and the least privileged person in the next. Perhaps it’s time to stop blaming other people, look also at ourselves, and move forward together. Just some thoughts.
Please rate, review, subscribe and share The Laverne Cox Show with everyone you know. You can find Laverne on Instagram and Twitter @LaverneCox and on Facebook at @LaverneCoxForReal.
As always, stay in the love.
Links of Interest:
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/business/media/roseanne-barr-offensive-tweets.html#:~:text=ABC%20abruptly%20canceled%20%E2%80%9CRoseanne%E2%80%9D%20hours,of%20his%20most%20influential%20aides.">After Racist Tweet, Roseanne Barr’s Show Is Canceled by ABC</a> (NYT, 2018)
<a href="https://guides.rider.edu/c.php?g=926249&amp;p=6675690">Privilege and Intersectionality</a> (Rider University)
Other Episodes Mentioned or Relevant:
<a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-laverne-cox-show-76844261/episode/class-poverty-shaming-w-mary-87735434/">Class Shaming w/ Mary O’Hara</a>
<a href="https://bit.ly/45IgUsm">Beauty as Capital w/ Kimberly Foster</a>
<a href="https://bit.ly/3Pe0IK0">Black Women Are Enough w/ Sarah Adeyinka Skold</a>
CREDITS:
Executive Producers: Sandie Bailey, Alex Alcheh, Lauren Hohman, Tyler Klang &amp; Gabrielle Collins
Producer &amp; Editor: Brooke Peterson-Bell
Associate Producer: Akiya McKnight

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The Laverne Cox Show

Laverne explores the fraught and socially triggering word “privilege” and why nobody is a bad person just for having some.

Diary: Thinking About Privilege

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