Category Archives: Black Lives Matter

Oh my heart

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Piper

You’ve broken my heart for the last time. That’s what I want to tell white America, but I know it’s not true. My heart will be broken by you over and over and over again before I die. You’ve broken … Continue reading →

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Towards a Mathematics Beyond Police and Prisons

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Piper

Guest post by The Just Mathematics Collective The October 2020 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society contained an open letter calling on the mathematics community to boycott collaborations with police and demanding, in particular, that we stop … Continue reading →

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Math, in pandemic and precarity

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Tian An

Today is the last day of my employment. I didn’t expect it to matter to me, because my relationship with my current institution has soured over the way the administration and tenured faculty have handled their response to the pandemic, … Continue reading →

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#ShutDownMath

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Adriana Salerno

In this post, we join the call for the Strike for Black Lives that will be taking place on Wednesday June 10th, but first, we want to give some context. The editors of the inclusion/exclusion blog join our voices to … Continue reading →

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