on the first day of the fall term, a young WoC came up to me after class and told me she wanted to be like me, she’d never had a WoC professor before, and she liked that i told the students to call me Dr. or Prof. because i earned my degree. she said she was first gen and she was looking toward the future. yesterday after class she came up to tell me “your class is blowing my mind. and i like your dress.”