Missing Foundations: Diversity, Intersectionality, and Institutions in the Master’s House

Köln, 8.3..2019 Ifs Köln, GEECT Twin Conference 2019 Prof. Sylke Rene Meyer, California State University

A few years ago, I didn’t identify as white. I thought I am white, but I didn’t believe that my whiteness shapes my identity. I always identified as female and queer but also didn’t identify as middle class. I didn’t see how much my privilege of being a white, middle-class person actually makes me the person that I am. Why is that?