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Why Working in Social Justice Spaces Can Feel Like Class Performance

Everyone at my nonprofit talks about helping the poor but they all went to expensive private schools and have never actually been poor themselves.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-intentioned advocacy work can become a form of class privilege performance that excludes those with lived experience.

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