I felt an interesting push and pull as I went through the three readings for this week. As I read through “Oppression”, it kind of made me feel uncomfortable to contemplate my own oppression. Firstly, I don’t particularly want to acknowledge my own oppression because to do so makes me feel defeated by it somehow. And secondly, I am scared to define my oppression for fear that it may be used against me. I find myself measuring my perceived oppression, qualifying it against the oppressions faced by others, concerned that it won’t be seen as valid. I also have shaped my life to shelter myself from much that my oppression may have brought me. I also have to admit that some of that discomfort comes from some of the rhetoric around oppression in our class discussions thus far. As I read “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” I could say that some of my discomfort in acknowledging my oppression also comes from the fact that I feel I carry a tremendous amount of privilege. I also recognized that as much as I am aware that I carry a lot of privilege, I rarely confront the multitude of unseen ways in which I benefit from it. Reading “When Privilege and Oppression Intersect” somewhat helped me reconcile a bit of the conflict I feel between my oppression and privilege, but I am aware that if I were to do the exercise in the video, I would likely be at the front of the room.