My privileges:
1 - I am cis-gendered. I was born and looked like a girl. I feel like a girl. I present as a "traditional" female. I have gone through my tom-boy phases but by and large, my tits and ass put me strongly in the female category.
2 - I am heterosexual. I am a female who is sexually attracted to men. No parts of me are into having a sexual or romantic relationship with a female.
3 - I have children. I procreated and therefore I am not harassed about my decisions in relation to my "womanhood" or fertility. It took me a long time to finally get pregnant with DD1; I was 30 when I had her. Then a miscarriage about 2 years later left me seemingly unable to have more children. I was constantly tortured about when would I have another baby while longing in my heart for another child and mourning in secret the I had lost. Then by some miracle, DD2 came along 7 years after DD1. I am so privileged. While people ask about me having a son, for the most part, they leave my uterus status alone now.
4 - I am educated, like very highly educated. As I have stated before, I hold several degrees: BA - History, MLIS - Library and Information Studies, MEd - Curriculum and Instruction, EdD - Educational Leadership. So many doors are open for me because of my degrees. My degrees mean that during all of this Covid stuff, I haven't missed a paycheck.
5 - I am fluent in English with only a Texas accent. My parents came to this country during a time when learning English and using it without an accent was paramount. Over the phone, you cannot tell I'm Mexican or that English is actually my second language.
6 - I have an "American" last name. This goes hand in hand with #5. My last name does not give away my ethnicity. There have been a few studies that show people with foreign-sounding names get different opportunities from those with "American" or "White" names. I actually use both of my last names professions because I do not appreciate people's reactions to a Brown face showing up when they were expecting a "Doctor."
7 - I have a job with a salary. Like many people in higher education, I have a salary. Now, most weeks, I work well over 40 hours but even if I don't hit 40, my paycheck is still the same.
8 - My parents are both alive, relatively healthy, and live with me. I have 24/7 childcare. My girls love my parents and they love having the girls all the time. In fact, this partly the reason I commute almost 2 hours each way to work. My parents don't want to move and my girls refuse to live without their grandparents.
9 - My look is a bit more racially ambiguous. I feel that I look very Mexican, especially in the summer when I am quite brown but I have more than once been told I was lying about being Mexican. I don't look Mexican, they say. I think they think this is a compliment. So it takes people a while to decipher my background which means I am usually treated as a tan White lady or pretty Indian lady.
10 - I have a working car. I have had ex-friends leave the country for political reasons. While I understand their reasons, it is 100% privilege. A privilege that I to can indulge in. More than once I have toyed with the idea of moving back to Mexico or going north to Canada. This is something I can do because I can just hop in my car and go. I am not dependent on public transportation. I can get a wild hair and just go.
11 - I do not have any visible or invisible disabilities and am quite healthy. If you look at me I'm just normal. I stand straight. I walk on two feet. I do not have any major health issues.
These are just 11 off the top of my head, with the help of Buzzfeed. Now I'm a 41-year-old Mexican woman married to a Black man raising biracial children in deep East Texas so I have a lot of issues that I deal with on a daily basis but y'all I'm so lucky. Yes, I have a ton of student loan debt. Yes, I am underpaid by comparison to most people with my level of education and experience but am fully employed at a job I love. I live such a privileged life in comparison to so many people. If I can make a list of my privileges and know I still have even more that I could list then you can too. Privilege is real. Many of the things I listed I didn't do anything to get. Some of them are the result of a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. I survive and I fight. I advocate and I try to be an ally. I'm so far from the perfect BLM advocate or LGBTQIA ally but I am willing to say I have benefitted from being "normal" and I'm going to use that privilege for good.