Apparently I should share my Class Rage more often? ;)

Full disclosure: This stuff ALWAYS feels really complex for me to write about, both personally and politically. I mean, yes, I come from a working-class background and I’ve been a poor person pretty much my whole adult life… But I also get by okay now, and I get TONS of privilege in other ways. Especially as a white person, as someone who is a female-assigned genderqueer and who can pass for a cis lady, and as someone who is disabled but can pass for able-bodied. See also, I was a scholarship kid at both a very fancy private high school and a very fancy private college, and I’m in graduate school now (at a much less fancy state school). Educational privilege/access really fucking matters and plays into this. I’m very privileged in many ways, no question. And esp. because I wanna be mindful of that, my tendency is usually to step back and let other people talk first about this stuff, you know?

See also: I honestly still have a lot of shame about growing up poor! And my growing up poor is also complicated by the fact that my parents did eventually class up around the time I hit high school (although their class status has changed again, now that they are both unemployed and in their 60s). I grew up knowing poverty AND knowing class privilege; I’ve had it easy in many ways and not-very-easy in many other ways.

And, still. MY HEART HURTS when I see Hipster Queer Trust Fund Babies wearing fucking trucker caps & workshirts. Le Sigh.