My Social Location Of A Middle Class

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My social location consists of being a female that is white, heterosexual, and cis-gendered. I have a cis-gendered, white partner and he and I visually present as a couple that would conform to gender identity roles within society (even though we actually do not). I am able-bodied, I am still considered a youth at 23 years old, and I guess I am considered middle-class. It is hard to identify my class as I am both of a lower-class and a middle-class since I am a student living off of student loans and have accumulated a lot of debt yet I am in a position of power since I have been giving the opportunity to go to post-secondary education directly after high school.
I think one of the differences I have noticed within the class is my educational background. I had discussed on a few occasion how I have come from a university background, which I notice makes me difference on a few difference levels. I have the more obvious difference in that I am seen as someone that has had more access to education and this might reflect an opinion that my opportunities have come from an intersection of...

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