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On the Identification of Male Privilege

At first you don’t notice, despite the New Yorker and Jezebel articles, despite #MeToo and your own friends’ upbringing; despite your own bringing. You understand it intellectually; the idea of it; but you don’t feel it to the core of your bones, the way that it eats your skin from the inside. Macho, machismo –Continue reading “On the Identification of Male Privilege”

Things NW people have said

I spent a few years in the Pacific Northwest working in IT. Loved the job, hated living there. Here are some things I overheard or were told to me, in all earnestness/unironically (irony was rare there): A guy I literally just met and said “Nice to meet you” to, apropos of nothing: “I’m about asContinue reading “Things NW people have said”

To the Polish dude who worked on my driveway

You arrived along with two other dudes, your hard r’s and nasal vowels chattering away while you scraped back the weeds from the path. None of you had ever driven a skidsteer before apparently, though I wouldn’t have known. Around lunchtime, I laid out the tarts and donuts I picked up from the Supervalu onContinue reading “To the Polish dude who worked on my driveway”