To start her discussion on the matter, she introduces what she considers to be a problem related to this issue: the fact that it is so frequently talked about that it has become “white noise”. She then defines privilege and lists different kinds of it. She opens her essay with a description of how the trips to Haiti she used to take as a child introduced her to the existence of opposite life tenors, both in different countries and in the same reality. In her piece “Peculiar Benefits”, Roxane Gay analyzes how privilege has had an effect on her life and the role it has gained in today’s society.
