Ok ok we want to play repression Olympics?

At the age of 11 I no longer had abusive narcissitc parents, I took care of my brother by volunteering at a local salvation army that paid me in food. I didn't have money for shoes, clothes, pants or anything. Having soap or shampoo was hard, knowing where to live was hard, hiding from the landlord was soul crushing. Through this time I managed to stay in highschool but wore the same thing all the time and wasn't able to make connections and my grades suffered. The school I went to was predominately white and rich, I was also homeless for most of my senior year in highschool. Because of the disparity between myself and my white peers I was not able to make connections. I was not able to make connections outside of school because I am white. I lived in the East Side of St.Paul Minnesota and the only white people on the block was me and my little brother. Nobody talks about what it's like to be poor in America, it breaks down to racial blaming too fast for anybody to discuss the discriminatory nature of being poor in america.

I have feared for my life in america from going hungry, I have feared for my existence from being homeless. I have been places and been in situations you can't possibly understand. You need to take your frustrations out on the people actively talking shit like the director of your hackspace and let your co-volunteers know that you are either biologically or identify a certain way if it bothers you. You can simply tell them because you have a working relationship with them, you have at best a passive relationship with internet randoms, it makes the community look bad to chastise people.

You do not have a "tiny, tiny bit" of power. You have no power over others and only power over yourself. You can take the fight to people actively harming you or you can be passive aggressive in channel and deny that anybody else might be living a living hell just like you.