anti-oppression

These are some thoughts I had following a fantastic anti-oppression workshop on Sunday. They are my own, do not represent the opinions of the organizers or other paricipants, and are the product of my individual, highly subjective experiences.

 Privilege and Oppression

Certainly, this world doesn't need more words written by people like me - which is part of why, at the end of this note, I reproduce a more thoughtful, enduring essay than this one.   But here and now, I nonetheless write as a white, male-bodied, self-identified anarchist, understanding to the best of my ability the irony of using this medium to say to my male-bodied comrades who fight, rage, love, cry and struggle for social justice in the Twin Cities:

Please, wake up and shut up.