There are real things to talk about with first-gen identity and I do think that it's an important category and something we should talk about. It's OK to be proud of your first-gen status. First-gen students have to overcome a lot just to exist in and navigate academic spaces.
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But intersectionality matters. I was first-gen so I myself often had doubts, but few other people questioned if I belonged in those academic spaces. We don't have to argue with others for our right to belong ON TOP OF having to deal with our own insecurities. That's privilege.
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There are better things that could be said about the importance of intersectionality, adding in things like gender, sexuality, & disability, among other things. But if you're white & first-gen & you're ignoring the privileges you got from being white, well, you're doing it wrong.
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I did a Google Ngram search for "first gen" & there's a huge uptick in 2007, even more if you hyphenate, but it goes down with the full "first generation," so I wonder if there's something to that correlation of the abbreviation's popularity & its connection to uni attendance?
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This is very true. Because of my disabilities and growing up poor I've had issues in academic spaces on so many occasions but never have I had a hurdle because of my whiteness. It was always "welcome until percieved as other" and not "percieved as other until I earned a welcome"
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Yeah, this is exactly it! Great articulation, with the "welcome until perceived as other" vs. "perceived as other until I earned a welcome", thanks!
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As someone living abroad, I find rather astonishing wanting to elevate your marginalization and how degrees of marginalization are established/claimed in the US. Stratification is real but it is odd how it is played through recognition of "one's place in the hierarchy of grief"
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Agree!!!
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