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The Perils of "Privilege" * PhD in French + French Studies, NYU * maltzp at gmail

Toronto, Ontario
Joined June 2010

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    My book has one, uh, rule for life, which is not to make 'Aware Of Privilege' your personal brand

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  2. (Subtweets, yes, but also more broadly applicable)

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  3. It helps no one - not the more marginalized, most definitely not yourself - to begin discussions of injustice from the starting point of your own (even implicit) exceptionality, purity, etc.

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  4. If you do this, it will backfire. Like, by all means *be* aware of structural injustices and your own place in various systems. But that's... something quite different.

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  5. That said: there's a holographic fanny pack at Durumi that I will be regularly visiting and contemplating until (definitive) middle age or it sells, whichever comes first

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  6. Ready to skip the Ann Taylor/Talbots years and head straight for Diana Trent's wardrobe on "Waiting For God"

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  7. Also for the new "concept store" on Ossington, which had a (cropped?) t-shirt that said '90s on it

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  8. Think I'm too old for $40 already-stained vintage overalls

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  10. So to get from Landsdowne station to the southbound bus, there’s no crosswalk? Seems reasonable

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  11. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    don’t let overripe bananas boss you around. You don’t ever have to make banana bread if you don’t want to. Put them in the compost and move on with your life.

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  12. Let it be known that the bath of inevitability has happened, following a walk home from the park where I couldn't get the 'actually urine isn't sterile' episode of the Savage Lovecast out of my mind

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  13. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Does this other dog share some semblance to the current president of the United States?

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  14. Full stream as if she were a tree

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  15. And so the dog run honeymoon period ends: while 🐩 was mid-other-emoji, another dog came over and *peed all over her*!!!

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  16. Another day, another unequivocally bad tweet having its badness pointed out by all

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  17. “Here’s Your First Look at ’The Wife,’ The Glenn Close Movie Based on Meg Wolitzer’s Novel” by

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  19. The signs (this specific one's new to me) are myriad and everywhere. Is there actually one man in Toronto with a thing for tall, professional-class women of a certain age (and as per other signs, for feet), or is there some other explanation??

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  20. Unexpected but compelling find: a place I used to rent is now on the market. Shockingly the photos are from before we moved in, when it was not IKEA-and-poodle-furnished, nor from the era of the similarly-lifestyled next tenants

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