topic: [[Privilege]] created: 2024-04-09 *When the world expects you to represent a group, failure has different meaning. it is a privilege to be able to fail and recover.* ##### what is it? The idea that failure can be viewed a privilege emerges at the end of the Right Kind of Wrong. ##### why does it matter? She speaks especially of it in the context of the LGBTQ+ community, and how rejection or "being viewed as failure" by the culture creates meaning for the identity of impacted people. Additionally, marginalized and historically racialized people have not had the privilege of bouncing back after failure. ##### What would the opposite argument be? Failure is hard for everyone. The world may say one thing about one's failure, does that mean that is how you should be defined? tags: #note/statement #on/failure #on/dei ##### Sources: Edmondson, A. C. (2023). _[[Right Kind of Wrong - the science of failing well]]_ (First Atria books hardcover edition). Atria Books.