How
Privilege
Defines
Perspective
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
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Journalist
Activist
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How
Privilege
Defines
Perspective
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
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Privilege Plugin 2.1
BETA RELEASE
&
TERMS
CONDITIONS
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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SUPREMACIST
PATRIARCHY
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CAPITALIST
SUPREMACIST
PATRIARCHY
bell
hooks
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But I'm not
privileged.
pssssssss
psssssst
we are all privileged
install privilege plugin
Confront your
PRIVILEGE
installing 39431 dependencies
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First-Gen Asian-
Moderately
Petite, mostly
raised poor
suicide/depression
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First-Gen Asian-
Moderately
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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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CONTRAST
SKIN TONE
DEVICES
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Our world view is narrow.
We deny our subjectivity.
Math
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5'11"
2s
1mi
Usable
Unusable
5'0"
10ms
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Tall
Fast
Far
Hard
Easy
Short
Slow
Near
NEUROTYPICAL
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LATEST DEVICES / 4G
TRANSPORTATION/
URBANIZATION
We define
the .
viewport
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Contextualise every single absolute
with a relative.
Lessen your
IGNORANCE
install 43231 dependencies
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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
