How did ‘Glue Girl’ bring her protest onto an NBA court? Privilege.

Privilege looks nonthreatening and unassuming. It blends in long enough to be out of mind before it reveals its true audacity. It looks a lot like the animal rights advocates who have taken Minnesota Timberwolves games hostage, using the canvas of the court for their performative displays of protest.

There are three women at the center of the recent protests that have gone from zero to 1,000 during games played in Minneapolis and Memphis. The women have reached the playing court or the basketball stanchion, drawing attention to themselves for their cause: Timberwolves co-owner Glen Taylor and the mass killing of 5.3 million chickens to combat an avian flu outbreak at his factory egg farm.

The women have the financial wherewithal and backing of their group, Direct Action Everywhere, to fly into these cities, get into the arenas and pay for pretty decent seats. But the women also possess the White-passing skin tones — a far greater currency in America — that provide courtside access, no questions asked.

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