In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama recalls being the only child at his school in Jarkarta allowed to swim at the tony American Club — an early epiphany as to the privileges afforded by American citizenship. Obama was born into a nation that allowed him to swim in the pool of his choosing, just as I was born into a nation that allowed me abortion in the state of my choosing. And while Obama’s race, like my gender, awakened him to the history of injustice, he never lost the sense that he was, in the context of that history, deeply, unjustly fortunate, and thus duty-bound to attempt to correct that. Speaking as a middle-class millennial white feminist with not a lot to complain about, I suppose that is where our interests intersect.via youngmanhattanite
—Moe Tkacik