As much as schools ostensibly support “interdisciplinary” work what they don’t do is offer support to researchers actually doing it… particularly those of us who are marginalized in scientific and/or artistic fields to being with…

Thank you for saying all of this, it’s nice to hear that I’m not the only one who has gone through this: Also being first gen and not knowing any better. Not knowing who to ask or what to do and following paths that were never made for me through to dead ends both scientifically and creatively