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NEW POST!
"On Feeling Awkward and Finding Your People"
By Arianna Falbo

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"From North England to Newfoundland: An Immigrant Academic Story"
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"Flourishing in the Academy: Complicity and Compromise"
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Carol Hay - How I Got Lucky — First-Gen Philosophers My experiences as a first-generation philosopher have been shot through with luck. I grew up in the middle of the Canadian prairies, in an 800-person town so remote it had neither paved roads nor st...

I worry that some people love rags-to-riches tales of first-generation academics because they feed the lie of meritocracy and the false promise of class mobility. So I’ll talk about how I got lucky until I’m blue in the face. www.firstgenphilosophers.com/contribution...

First-Gen Philosophers A platform about philosophers who are the first in their family to attend university

A platform about philosophers from non-academic family backgrounds. Promoting diversity and inclusion in philosophy, by exploring the intersections of class with race, gender and further dimensions of equity.
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New: First Generation Philosophers A new website features autobiographical essays by philosophers who were first-generation college students. Launched today, First Generation Philosophers already has contributions from Helen De Cruz (S...

Check out this new site created by Simona Aimar and Daniel James with blog posts on #FirstGen philosophers. My piece is in the pipeline — there is an open call for graduate students and colleagues sharing their experiences of what is like to enter academia dailynous.com/2024/04/16/n...