*Underperforming Privilege was a personal essay written during the pandemic with an accompanying line of t-shirts. This project was about investigating how the most capable of generations became consumed with the gnawing doubt that even with all the access and advantages, we always feel we are not living up to the expectations of ourselves and the privileges afforded to us. It’s to have so much at our fingers tips only to cramp up on the keyboard. It’s about the inevitable reality that we are doing less with more. It’s that special anxiety of an asterisk hanging over our accomplishments.