Christine Stevens
1 min readOct 29, 2024

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Kyle, I predict there will be people that say your privilege is that you didn't have to deal with systematic racism on a daily basis. You didn't have to worry about being shot by the cops in a traffic stop. You didn't have to deal with people's scorn because you didn't speak good English. You were maybe not a benefactor of white colonialism and supremacism, but nor were you its victim. But honestly, as someone who came from a working class white family, well, I never felt too privileged. I felt poor. I was poor. And there was nobody going to help us out. Nobody. At 19 I learned that I could make more money than I ever imagined by simply taking my clothes off in a strip club. I guess you didn't have that as an option LOL! Within a few months I was a heroin addict and suicidal. In some ways this happened to me because of poverty. THis wasn't going to happen to some rich girl. None of my life would happen to a rich girl. Being poor is my default psychological state. Even when I made money I was still the cheapest bitch imaginable. It's a poverty mindset that certainly transcends race.

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Christine Stevens
Christine Stevens

Written by Christine Stevens

Funny lady, writer of satire and sex, proud Californian. Like me? You can buy me a coffee here: https://buymeacoffee.com/xtinesteveO. Cheers!

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