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6 SAG-AFTRA | Winter 2021 | sagaftra.org EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Pamela Greenwalt Managing Editor Damon Romine Associate Managing Editor Tom Leupold Art Director Yvette Youssefia Magazine Staff Geordan Baker Jalika Conteh Kiley Cristiano Margo Giordano Aaron Goddard Michael McNulty Toni Mitchell Kamalei Pitoy Sheara Reich Kim Walters Valerie Yaros Editorial Subcommittee Liz Zazzi (chair) Joy Benedict Ellen Crawford Rik Deskin Joe Krebs Mike Sakellarides Jeff Spurgeon Woody Schultz Armand Vasquez Christine Bruno (alternate) Assaf Cohen (alternate) Michelle Damis (alternate) Dileep Rao (alternate) Contributors Anne Ericksen, Amy Hall, Deeann Hoff, Caroline O'Connor, Jonathan Tasini Advertising Sales Kiley Cristiano (323) 549-6516 ILCA Award Winner for General Excellence and Best Publication Design LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must be signed with your full name and local affiliation. Selected letters are limited to 150 words and may be edited for accuracy, space and clarity. Every effort will be made to preserve the author's intended substance. This section is intended for the general membership and, with the exception of convention delegates, is not available to SAG-AFTRA's elected officials. Letters are published at the discretion of the National Editorial Subcommittee. SEND LETTERS TO: Letters to the Editor SAG-AFTRA Magazine 5757 Wilshire Boulevard, 7th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90036 Letters may also be faxed to (323) 549-6500 or emailed to magazine.editor@sagaftra.org. L.A. Local member Rosie Foss with the masks she made for SAG-AFTRA leadership. WOW! I am the mother of proud SAG-AFTRA member, actress, musician, composer, songwriter and writer Rosie Foss. A lovely article about Rosie with pictures of SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris, Los Angeles Local President Patricia Richardson and Rosie wearing masks that she made appeared on page 23 of your SAG-AFTRA summer magazine. Wow! Wow! Wow! Rosie was screaming: "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gooooooosh!" Thank you very much for incredible recognition of her hard work in helping people as much as she can. It means a lot to all of us. Oxana Foss Privilege is not black and white. Attention spans should expand to include multicolored hues through which voicelessness can truly be understood. The intersectionality of humans is infinite, and so are the ways in which we understand ourselves and how others understand us. One can be privileged while being poor, female or gay. The 2020 crises demonstrate how identity is co-opted. People once disdainfully referred to as "unskilled labor" are now disingenuously called "essential workers," while being exploited. Opponents of organized labor who earlier this year decried the "unfairness" of having to join a union now denounce human rights abuses as if one position weren't directly related to the other. It's time for an expansive counter- narrative: "Only if we can do this …" Efraín Villa New Mexico Local PRIVILEGE Privilege encapsulated: "If I can do this, so can they." As protests vent this country's pressurized institutional racism, it's appalling that privilege is still framed as a binary concept. - 9