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Many philosophers have highlighted the lack of diversity amongst professional philosophers\, and there are several active initiatives aimed at encouraging greater diversity\, a great portion of which are aimed at supporting diverse undergraduates \;students on their route to graduate study. One dimension of diversity that often gets overlooked in these efforts&mdash\;and which overlaps and intersects with other axes of oppression in important ways&mdash\;is \;working-class\, low-income\, and first-generation status. \; \;This session aims to provide voice to the experiences of philosophers who come from poverty\, identify as low-income\, or are a first-generation university student.

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How do philosophers who are the first in their families to attend university learn to \;navigate the academic lifestyle? Does impostor syndrome ever go away\, or at least get better? How do low-income \;and first-generation \;philosophers deal with the sense of double-alienation\, both in academic spaces and when they return to their families or first homes? How does class intersect with other underrepresented identities to further marginalize certain philosophers in the field? \;Have class and socioeconomic status been \;adequately theorized by philosophers? \; \; \;Are low-income and/or first-generation students encouraged to pursue philosophy (by their families? Mentors? Professors?) and adequately supported if they decide to do so? \;What unique \;challenges arise for \;graduate students from low income and/or first-generation backgrounds? \;

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This session seeks to explore some of these questions and others\, and to provide a space for discussion and community building among those philosophers who have experienced socioeconomic disadvantage along their route to graduate study and/or professional philosophy. \;

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For more information about this event please contact: Arianna Falbo (arianna_falbo@brown.edu) and Heather Stewart (hstewa27@uwo.ca) \;

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For more information about the Graduate Student Council of the APA please visit our webpage: https://www.apaonline.org/group/gsc

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Find us on Facebook: \;https://www.facebook.com/GraduateStudentCouncil/

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Or e-mail us: contact-gsc@apaonline.org \; \;

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