It’s Time to Take Action: A New Blog Series I write this on a Sunday morning. I’m sitting in Central Park, listening to Octavia Butler’s Parable of The Talents. It’s a beautiful day and Butler’s writing is always captivating, but I’m finding that my mind is wandering to the current experiences of kids in states […]
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I’m sitting at a coffee shop this morning, where I’m supposed to be writing a book chapter. Instead, I find myself lost in thought, in anger, in pain, in disappointment. This has been my constant state since returning from #NCTMLA22 and I don’t know where to go from here. So this morning I made
“Don’t Say Gay,” CRT, & Trans Sports Bans: What Education Professionals Need to Know Over the last two years we’ve found ourselves in the midst of a culture war, with repeated attacks on trans and queer rights (especially that of trans kids), the teaching of truthful accounts of our country’s ugly history of racism, colonialism,
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Our Institutions Are Failing Us: Why I Resigned This week I finally got my March copy of MTLT. The Table of Contents of this month’s issue contains an erratum (see below photo) that points out an instance of (unintentional) plagiarism from the December issue. I knew this erratum was coming, and it was the
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For as long as I can remember, any night spent at a family member’s house would conclude with a matriarch of our family making everyone café con leche (more like leche con un poquito café, given that we were about to go to bed!). After drinking our leche we’d exchange kisses and recite, almost in
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Queer Mathematical Joy: Reflections from The “Camp” of Mathematical Queeries (Part 1) As many of you know, this summer I had the incredible opportunity to work with a small group of LGBTQ+ (entering) high school students for a mathematics enrichment program, “Camp” of Mathematical Queeries. The camp was probably the most joyful, affirming, and liberating
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B wrote an article in this week’s Global Math Department Newsletter. Check it out below (scroll down to page 11). Powered By EmbedPress View the Newsletter on the Global Math Department Website
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B & their co-founder of Radical Pedagogy Institute, Leah Owens, wrote a new blog post about radical pedagogy and re/humanizing education. Here’s a sneak peak: Read More
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On February 25 of this year, I watched as the House of Representatives heard arguments and voted on the Equality Act. In all, House Representatives spent less than an hour debating the bill. They spent less than an hour deciding whether people like me and my LGBTQ+ peers should be able to go to a
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