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Monthly Archives: February 2017
Hands Off My Confidence
I will be honest with you. I am so over people referring to women or black people or black women as if we are mysterious creatures, suffering from mysterious ailments, the causes of which can never possibly be understood. This … Continue reading
Posted in racism, sexism, victim-blaming, women in math
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Hidden Figures: How and Why We Brought it to the 2017 JMM
By now, you’re heard of Hidden Figures, a 20th Century Fox biographical drama which follows three African-American women who worked for NASA in the early 1960’s. The movie is based on a book written by Margot Lee Shetterly. With a complete title of … Continue reading
Posted in conferences
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Inclusion/Exclusion Principle
What do you think of when someone is described as “professorial”? I was recently reading an article that used this adjective to describe a film director. Immediately, I thought that they were speaking about a bearded white male, probably straight, … Continue reading
Posted in introduction
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