Alive & In Color - The BLK+Cross

It's easy to reduce harm to individual bad actors. But structural critique asks us to go deeper — to look at the systems we participate in, benefit from, and sometimes normalize without meaning to. on asking better questions.

With Elon Musk reportedly crossing into trillionaire territory, the question of structural critique feels even harder to avoid. However, this is not only about billionaires.

It is about the everyday systems we participate in, benefit from, resist, normalise, and reproduce, often without meaning to.

Structural critique is not the same as saying every individual is uniquely evil for existing inside harmful systems. But it also is not an excuse to avoid responsibility.

The point is to move beyond shame and defensiveness so we can ask better questions: What are we helping to maintain? Who is harmed by what we call normal? And what would accountability look like if it was not reduced to personal failure?