{"id":133,"date":"2013-09-24T13:23:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurelantur.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/24\/2013-9-14-authenticity-for-us-privileged-white-folk\/"},"modified":"2013-09-24T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:23:17","slug":"2013-9-14-authenticity-for-us-privileged-white-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/24\/2013-9-14-authenticity-for-us-privileged-white-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Authenticity for us privileged white folk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I explored the theme&nbsp;<em>Marginalization\/Belonging.&nbsp;<\/em>It has me thinking about times I&#8217;ve felt like I belonged, and times (and ways) that I felt deliberately excluded. What is coming up is how often I marginalize myself, and that it is often just in my head. And that in order to belong or fit in, I tone myself down.<\/p>\n<p>I have the privilege of being able to do that. My skin color, social class, genetics, education and other resources that I did not necessarily earn, give me the ability to fake it to fit in, and I benefit from that. I chose to be and act in certain ways to get what I want. I need to be careful about bitching about authenticity, you know? &nbsp;<strong>I can be myself, but am I willing to pay the costs?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Isn&#8217;t it nice that I get to make a deliberate decision about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I read a lot of blogs about spirituality, authenticity, and entrepreneurship. &nbsp;A lot of it seems tangled together, and there is this desperation that in order to be fully authentic, we have to have our own businesses so we don&#8217;t have to fake it at some lame company anymore. So we don&#8217;t have to wear pantyhose. <\/p>\n<p>We can create meaningful, spiritually based work. &nbsp;<strong>I believe this, but still, I am very privileged to be able to even consider this as an option, a real thing that might be possible for me.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of Shangri La. I think people living authentic, free, healthy, abundant lives can be a source of hope to others. And not living my life to the fullest does nothing to help. But I think it is good to stop and appreciate that by luck of birth, genetics, geography, and skin color, I get to ponder art and the meaning of it all while enjoying good health, clean water, and other abundant resources at my fingertips.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why do I feel like an asshole for saying thank you?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I explored the theme&nbsp;Marginalization\/Belonging.&nbsp;It has me thinking about times I&#8217;ve felt like I belonged, and times (and ways) that I felt deliberately excluded. What is coming up is how often I marginalize myself, and that it is often just in my head. And that in order to belong or fit in, I tone myself down. I have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}