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Karen, are you there? Are you there, Karen? Oh, yeah. You're muted. Sorry about that. No worries. Thank you. Nice to see you again. Good to see you, Kay. Thanks for having me. Uh, great to have to speak to everyone. Thank you. Uh, I'm going to talk to us about a slightly different topic today about power and privilege. So I'm intrigued to hear this. Um, thank you for giving me such a great topic to share. No problem. Can everyone see my slides? Warm fab. Great. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Kate. Um, really honored to be here today for this, um, teaching. I really thank you for the invitation. My name is Mix can try my pronouns are she and a, um a fellow orthopedic registrar and and Istanbul rotation in London. And and today I'll be talking a bit about power and privilege, which I think it's a great topic. Um, form nuances. And I really hope you enjoy my talk and be able to feel free to ask questions and tell me your experiences. So to start with, I want to talk about privilege and what privilege means So Peggy McIntosh, who is a social political Um, scholar in the United States defined privilege as the invisible package of unearned benefits. So this is about a group of a person or a group of people who has a special advantages, immunity, permission, right or benefit granted to them or enjoyed by them pretty by belong to a particular demographic group or as an individual, it means that certain parts of your demographic makeup have created advantages for you that others do not have. Privilege exists when a group has something of value that is denied to others purely because of the blue they belong in, and not because of anything they've done or that they fail to do. And having access to privilege doesn't mean that you are positively, um, that you're positive advantage, but it means that it's definitely an asset. That means that whatever you try to do or whatever you try to aspire to be, uh, means that you have a bit of an edge to it. It means that you also don't have a system of oppression against you, and that you are generally in the majority and the norm, and often we find that privilege leads to inequality inequity so I want to ask everyone to reflect upon what privileges that do you hold. And it's likely that by being able to listen to this talk, be able to see me on your screen, be able to operate, turn your heating on the university educated that you hold some privileges. I like to share my privileges that I often think about an effect on. So in terms of my demographics, um, I was born and raised in Hong Kong. Um, I'm able bodied. I was private school and university educated and identify as a gender queer person. My privileges include being able, being able bodied, which means I don't have to think about accessing my flat on the third on a third story building. It means I can access buildings and workplaces without having to think about how I'm going to get in through the door. It means that I can feel see in here and do most things that I want. And most importantly, it means I can operate being high level educated in English. I have the privilege of getting a high paying job in the UK, which lends itself to me, earning higher wages. That means I can live in a comfortable flat and afford to turn my heating on, sometimes afford to, uh, for my car with some gas sometimes and sometimes going on holidays. So I hope that you can think about the privilege that you hold and you feel inspired to reflect upon this. So how does privilege man itself ourselves? And we can roughly categories in different, um, in different categories. Still race. We usually in society, we talk about white privilege through gender. We can have male privilege being, um, in terms of your wealth, you can have social in my class privilege in terms of your sexual orientation and gender identity. You may hold heterosexual or assist gender privileges. And I'm being able bodied, being able to walk, talk, see, operate, you have everybody privilege. In addition, you may have newer you maybe privileges. You may not have any neuro diversity conditions, but today I think I will focus on a few, which I think are the biggest privilege that, um, and biases that we experience in the UK and mainly the big one to start with would be white privilege. So white privilege is when the color of your skin has gifted you with unearned benefits that puts you an advantage is because your whiteness will work around navigating you through a society which is Western based in the Western society and culture. It means that by having purely been having white skin, you haven't been through social, political, financial or legal hindrance, and that you have been gifted with the benefit of the doubt, which manifests as privilege to just be who you are through having white privilege. You're not placed under systems of racial oppression where you're told you're not the norm and that your views is not accounted for as priority again. In Peggy Peggy McIntosh's essays, she talked about how her right privileges manifest is in daily life, and some of them are quite mundane, but some of the a bit more serious. So, for example, she talks about how having white privilege means that she can buy bandages that matches her skin tone, or she can get make up that matches her skin tone. She can have, um, she means that when she moves somewhere is likely, that should be able to rent or purchase the house that she wants and that when she moved to a new place. It is likely that her neighbors will be pleasant or nice to her. I won't give her funny looks, basically based on how she on the color of her skin. She also comments about how if you're shopping and when you're going out shopping, the shop assistants might not follow you around or look at you funny. Or it may mean that when you walk into an elevator, strangers won't look at you cautiously or clutch onto their handbag or you're there handbags. It also means that when you open the television, do you open a magazine. You turn on the television that you see your face represented as the majority. You can take a job from an employer, and nobody's going to second. Guess that maybe you got this job purely based on your race and being white and having more privilege means that if you're a female that you have four times higher chance of surviving pregnancy or childbirth, and you're not being succumbed to raise your stereotyping as security points or stop and search everyone to discuss its right male privilege, which is, I think, personally is the another big aspect of privilege that is within the UK it means by purely by being male and nothing that you have done to earn the right of being a male, that when you go to work that people will not undermine you, that people, if you are being assertive, people will not call you bossy or aggressive or rude that people won't. People will assume that you're hired pretty because of gender, and it's a diversity hire.