sarah jeong

+ I can in their faces. There are questions about solidarity, so I answer them, saying again how important it is that people with privilege+

+ make space for people who have less, that they step back. I use the example of being a cis woman and the importance of making space for +

+ trans women. Everything is going okay (on the outside: inside I'm not at all okay). Finally, we get to the end. One of the girls +

+ literally says, okay we're out of time. Then the white boy says: I want to say a couple more things. He proceeds to say that at LaSalle+

+ their mission is to "meet people where they're at". First of all, he already told me this beforehand. Secondly, the students already know+

+ it. So, he's saying it to challenge EVERYTHING I've said. Because, as a 20 year-old white gay boy, he obvi knows more about oppression +

+ and how to deal with it than a queer Black woman who does this for a living. And he WILL take up space to tell me so. By now, I've been +

+ dealing with his micro and macro agressions for a couple of hours. I'm done. I stop him, mid-sentence. I tell him that his refusal to +