Hi! I'm Sam Killermann . I write, doodle, code, and fund this site... all by lonesome — at least, that was true, up until I started asking for help with funding the site 2018 , and people started employing me to create things in 2019 . If you dig what I'm doing here, I could really use the help:

Peggy McIntosh, one of my social justice role models and an all-around great thinker, pioneered the idea of a privilege list in my world, and many others. In her short essay, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, she shared the idea that people who are White are always carrying with them an “invisible knapsack” that is filled with resources, guides, maps, blank checks, and other helpful tools that make life easier for them. And further, the idea that members of different races are born with different knapsacks, or sets of tools, they have at their disposal.

Expanding on her idea, below you will find lists I’ve written with the help of the community here, that share the contents of several other identity groups’ invisible knapsacks. The goal in creating these lists is not to shame members of privileged groups, but rather to make cognizant in their minds the unearned benefits granted to them in a hope to increase their ability to empathize with individuals who were not so fortunate, and to advocate for a more equitable future together.