Poor Little Rich Girl is a one-woman comedy show by Upper East Side native Tori Piskin, who spent her youth hiding her designer clothes and pretending her credit card didn't have her dad's name on it. As a fly on the wall to New York's elite, she shares ridiculous stories from her Manhattan childhood, revealing the world of privilege she was born into.
I know there are people who'll say I only got this role because of who my dad is. They're not seeing that I've had ten years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I've been on.
It's impossible to ignore the tension in the air right now. Acts of political violence, heated debates, and deepening division leave many of us feeling bewildered, frustrated, and even helpless. In times like these, our instinct can be to double down on our perspective or point fingers outward. One of the drivers of polarization is the sense that acknowledging another group's struggles somehow diminishes our own. Humility, if we are open to it, offers another path.
"You'd think, wouldn't you, that if you were immensely powerful and rich like Elon Musk and all these other tech bros and members of that podcast community," the former politico told The Guardian, "that you'd reflect on your good fortune compared with most other people?"
The heightened salience of identity in modern political discourse suggests an internalisation of the neoliberal view, reducing identities to consumer preferences.
"Hope Walz claimed that running for sport is a political act that's only for the privileged, taught to her by her father, Governor Tim Walz."
