How

Privilege

Defines

Perspective

TATIANA MAC

@TatianaTMac

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How

Privilege

Defines

Perspective

TATIANA MAC

@TatianaTMac

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Privilege Plugin 2.1

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a special right, advantage, or immunity granted to only a particular person or group.

privilege

RACE

GENDER

PHYSICAL ABILITY

RELIGION

CLASS

ORIENTATION

NATIONALITY

MENTAL ABILITY

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Implicit Association Test

THIS

NOT

IS

RANDOM

IS

THIS

SYSTEMATISED

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bell

hooks

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 But I'm not

privileged.

pssssssss

psssssst

we are all privileged

install privilege plugin

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PRIVILEGE

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plot twist

privilege alone is harmless

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POWER

PRIVILEGE

POWER

PRIVILEGE

gains us

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Privilege doesn't dictate
 

how hard we work,
how far we go...


Privilege determines
where we start.

Our privileges are invisible to us.

Based on a comic by New Yorker comic Robert Minkoff

The world is unjust.

There is some justice.

The world is just.

Based on a comic by New Yorker comic Robert Minkoff

CAN MOVE

CAN'T MOVE

What privileges we're born with is random.

The system that grants us power is not.

Based on a comic by New Yorker comic Robert Minkoff

OPPRESSION

PRIVILEGE

What we
take for granted

What we
don't have

PRIVILEGE

OPPRESSION

THE SYSTEM
BENEFITTED US

THE SYSTEM
DISADVANTAGED US

Capitalism scares
us with scarcity.

Work harder.

$24.3B

$760MM

$3.30/hr

$7,000

We do not earn everything
we receive.

😠🥺😬

things, such as goods or power, should be vested basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than factors such as sexuality, race, gender, age, or wealth

meritocracy

Meritocracy is a satirical concept.

Meritocracy

DEATH TO

⚰️

5

STAGES
OF GRIEF

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

I work hard for everything.

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

Slavery wasn't my fault!

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

Why not a
Men's Month?"

"

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

I hate my privilege.

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

Privilege isn't my fault, but it is my responsibility.

NOTHING CAN BE CHANGED UNTIL IT IS FACED.

James Baldwin

POWER

PRIVILEGE

POWER

PRIVILEGE

IGNORANCE

BIAS

POWER

PRIVILEGE

gains us

IGNORANCE

BIAS

hides our

Admit your

BIAS

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SKIN TONE

DEVICES

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Our world view is narrow.

We deny our subjectivity.

Math

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5'11"

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Tall

Fast

Far

Hard

Easy

Short

Slow

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LATEST DEVICES / 4G

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URBANIZATION

We define
the                   .

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Contextualise every single absolute
with a relative.

Lessen your

IGNORANCE

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Awareness that we're focused above the fold.

Curiosity for what
lies beyond.

Consume media that does not centre your experience.

Understand that not everything is made
for your understanding.

Empathy,

a word

Empathy is
a scam.

the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.

empathy

Empathy seeks to validate someone else's lived experience
by centring our own.

Replace empathy with trust.

Trust your users' lived experiences over your own presumptions.

Stop gaslighting lived experiences just because they aren't your own.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come
for you in the night.

ANGELA DAVIS

Share your

POWER

Nothing about us without us.

Diversity is being invited to the party.

Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.

VERNĀ MYERS

VP, Inclusion Strategy, Netflix

Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance. Justice is letting someone else throw the party.

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Retire from the stage, rockstar.
Set it for someone else.

Hand over the keys to queer, disabled, trans, immigrant, Muslim, Black, Indigenous nonbinary people and women of colour.

We must learn to lift
as we climb.

ANGELA DAVIS

BLACK

TRANS NONBINARY PERSON

DISABLED

MUSLIM

POOR

QUEER

NON-AMERICAN

NEURODIVERSE

Tear down this wall, Chad.*

*Caucasian Hetero Abled Dude

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git commit -m "✊🏽 Resist, relentlessly"

How Privilege Defines Performance

By Tatiana Mac

How Privilege Defines Performance

In theory, web performance, accessibility, and inclusive design all have similar goals: Provide the best, most consistent experience to all people using the minimal amount of resources. In practice, this often falls apart. Product creators define what it means to be performant from where they stand, which is typically from places of privilege with unseen biases, struggling to find true empathy with their users. Through this talk, we'll examine how to build conscientiously, looking within to resist systematic problems in order to create more truly performant, accessible, and inclusive systems for our users. Given first at Perf Matters in Redwood City, Calif. on 4 April 2019. You can watch the talk here: https://youtu.be/nQq_gZiZ-jg

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