Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: privilege

  • White Fragility

    If you have ever wondered why some people respond to the suggestion that something they’ve said is racist with outrage over the implication that they could ever be racist rather…


  • The Establishment

      In The Establishment, Owen Jones argues that the establishment is not so much a group of wealthy people in cahoots to keep everyone else down, but rather a collection…


  • MicroRebellions

    I have a new blogging project – MicroRebellions. It was inspired by the confluence of two things: 1. A quote from Albert Camus “The only way to deal with an…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Bluest Eye

    I discovered I could edit on the train so I wasn’t reading for a while. I’ve got as far as I can with editing the current work-in-progress; it now needs…


  • Writing and Unconscious Bias

    I’ve been pondering this one for a while. A few weeks ago I stumbled across a radical feminist critique of one of my favourite shows, Firefly. My first reaction was…


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