How to Use Your Privilege Wisely

The most important thing to know about privilege is that everyone has some form of it. You don’t need to act guilty or remorseful, just do the right thing. But in order to do the right thing and use your privilege, you must know what your privilege is (if it isn't obvious already).
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Think about the parts of your identity you worry about the least. Your race, gender, ability, religion, sexual orientation, or identity. Once you've figured that out, it's time to take action.

​1. Learn about people who lack that ordinary privilege at work, school, home and in their communities.  Read books, watch documentaries, and ask questions:

• Do they lack rights?
• Do they lack benefits?
• Do they have less freedoms?
• Where do they have less advantages?
  
  

2. Look for opportunities to think and act but you have to make listening a priority. Don’t make it about you.​

• Raise issues to those who can make change
• Add perspective to those who have your privileges
• Give credit and praise where due as much as possible
• Amplify voices of those who need it
• Help when people are interrupted

 
Some of the world's greatest privileges include:

• White privilege which includes a catered society
• Religious privilege that provides a sense of community, celebrations, holidays, and days off
• Gender privilege which is specific to male privilege but there is heterosexual privilege, as well

​Please remember, it is not your job to save those who are less privileged. Instead use your privilege to create a restorative society so that they can make their own decisions and speak for themselves.