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"The Trinity Access Programmes held an event on front square on the 05th of April, funded by the equality fund, called the Privilege Walk. The aim of this event was to increase awareness of where privilege can place people in society and specifically showcase the work of the college in trying to support those less privileged
Every statement that was read out addresses some small privilege that is based on gender, race, ethnicity, class, or sexual orientation. The small statements in this exercise added up to divide people into different locations across front square. This is a reflection of how small privileges in society often place individuals in different places in society.
Interestingly, privilege tends to be invisible to those who are privileged. That is, when we are ‘privileged’ based on race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other factor, we tend to not recognise the improvements in our circumstances that accumulate over time from those privileges.
The point of this exercise was not to make any of us embarrassed about the privileges we have received, but to make all of us aware of how such privileges function. Whether we are highly privileged, moderately privileged or are not privileged, it is possible to behave in ways that level the playing field for everyone.
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