Hi! I can't remember exactly how I found your journal-- I think it was interests search or something-- and I bookmarked this page, meaning to subscribe to you, and then forgot ;___; But I am glad I found this again, because I would love to read more. I'm subscribing to you/giving you access-- though if you would rather I didn't, just let me know. (No pressure to add back or anything, either, of course).

I can identify with this somewhat:
My parents are well educated lefty artist types working unskilled low-paid jobs, which makes me ambivalent about my class status.

My parents are well educated lefty artist/academic types too :P Though my father grew up poor in India, got a bit upwardly mobile (in comparison to his childhood, definitely), and ended up at great universities in India and then Princeton. And now he is a professor at a uni in India, and has been for almost three decades. And my mother comes from greater class privilege than she currently actually has (she lives and works in India and tends to do a lot of freelance low-paid work, or have temporary higher-paying stints). She would have a much harder time if she tried to come back and make it in the US. Anyway, sorry, the point is, the class (dis)privilege situation is so complicated in my family, so I can understand! Sorry for rambling :x