Can't help but feel that class is more complicated than any conversation on here could warrant. I've often wondered where I fall and come up blank. Weighing up how the aspects of money, generational wealth, education and access can layer up and also cancel eachother out is messy.

Perhaps we get trapped in the facile signifiers of class strata (middle class people eat/do/say this, working class people eat/do/say that). Some claim working class status like an heirloom, though they have considerably better prospects than their parents or grandparents did.

I come from a migrant family, but both my parents went to university. I was privately educated through scholarships and bursaries and went to a Russell Group uni. I rent centrally in a popular UK city. I make a modest living as an artist and have a small pot of savings.

But I have no safety net under me. I most certainly am not coming into any inheritance. I have periodically had to support family members financially, though my income is not huge and certainly isn't regular. Where do I stand on the class spectrum?

I have no desire to claim working class-ness to gain some amorphous 'authenticity' or 'relatability'. If ppl assume I'm working class or grew up in ends purely because I'm black then that's entirely their (racist) projection. We need to be careful with these broad brushstrokes.

We're all doing a lot of deflecting, which I get. People cringe at accepting middle or upper class upbringings, because it points to all the things awarded by virtue of birth, environment, chance. It deflates our origin stories, our rich and carefully built personhood(s).

And if we spent more time dissecting rather than mocking, ppl may own their shit and do their part to disrupt class barriers. Lol. That's perhaps too optimistic. But anyway, this whole game of 'Who's More Of A Middle Class Cunt' doesn't seem esp constructive, kind or clever.

Race is ofc a huge factor. We know that black and other minority ppl are far more likely to grow up economically deprived. But there's also a small but not insignificant portion of ethnic minorities in this country with FAT bank accounts esp in the Indian community.

I'm going on & on. But main points are: class definitions are more slippery than they were in the Downton Abbey days. Brown/migrant doesn't always mean working class. Mocking ppl for being middle class (sthg they can't help?!) doesn't help anyone, least of all working class folk.