Exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in the clinical setting

Well over a decade ago, when I was in my honors year, I found myself struggling to write a thesis on race and Whiteness in Australia in which I explicitly positioned myself as a White gay man. The data that I examined in the thesis reflected my own experiences of race privilege, yet many of the experiences I drew upon also involved my identity as a gay man and my experiences of marginalization in this regard. In exploring my own experiences of privilege living as a White person in a colonial nation, I was left feeling somewhat uneasy; I had a nagging feeling that, somehow, while this emphasis upon race privilege told the most important story, it didn't tell all of the story: It didn't locate me within a range of identity categories from which I stand both to benefit and potentially to be disadvantaged.