A thread on understanding POC experience at a postgraduate level:
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I want young brown people to see me thriving and actively changing Classics. In turn I want them to feel like they can enter this discipline not having to experience the struggles I have had to endure. I want to make this subject accessible.
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I admit it might have just been a bad paper, but I feel like as a POC I don't have the nine lives that my white peers have. If I slip up then the old white men at the top will use that against me and I've worked too hard these last few years to let that happen.
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At the end of the day it's only one paper and I understand that to some people I will sound entitled. It hasn't affected my average and I am still motivated to do what I came to do. But I shouldn't have to feel like this. I feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders
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My achievements are the achievements of young POCs, and me getting a low grade makes me feel like I have failed them. Especially on the only paper where I discussed issues of race within classical studies.
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I can only do my best but sometimes that won't be enough. It's a sad reality for POCs in academia and there is nothing worse than knowing that all you can do is watch.
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Whiteness//Classics//Empire in C18 British neoclassical painting 
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