“The past ten years have been a series of lessons,” Lena Dunham said.
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 01: Lena Dunham attends the Brilliant Minds Initiative dinner at Gramercy Park Hotel Rooftop on May 1, 2018 in New York City.wears many hats—she's a writer, a director, an actor. She's also been called a poster child for white privilege.
In many ways that is true—there are plenty of examples that reflect Dunham's privilege as a white millennial woman, whether that be in how she satirized herself and other white New York twentysomethings like her in the HBO series, or in the fact that the show, which was set in Bushwick, hardly ever featured people of color .
"Whenever I find out I’m trending, I have to immediately check if I’m alive!" she joked on Twitter, at the start of a thread about her white privilege."Then, I try and see if there’s a constructive dialogue to have on Twitter.
"It actually wasn’t a dialogue - it was just me agreeing that the Hollywood system is rigged in favor of white people and that my career took off at a young age with relative ease, ease I wasn’t able to recognize because I also didn’t know what privilege was," she continued with her."The past ten years have been a series of lessons. The lesson now? Sit down. Shut up, unless it’s to advocate for change for Black people. Listen.
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