From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10021 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Valeria de Paiva Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Manifesto for Inclusivity Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:15:42 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Valeria de Paiva Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="118516"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: "categories@mta.ca" To: Eugenia Cheng Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Sun Oct 13 15:23:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.55]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iJdq1-000UdI-9H for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 15:23:09 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:60114) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1iJdpe-00035W-FX; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 10:22:46 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1iJdpU-0002yt-DF for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 10:22:36 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10021 Archived-At: Dear Eugenia, Thanks for the "Manifesto for Inclusivity". I would like to sign it and have already distributed it to the "Women in Logic" group. I know you suggested people write to you directly, but I wouldn't like anyone to think that you're alone in this fight for inclusivity. Best regards, Valeria On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:13 AM Eugenia Cheng wrote: > Dear All, > > During CT 2018 we had an informal discussion session about issues of > diversity and inclusion in the Category Theory community and beyond. One > idea that arose was to write some sort of "Manifesto for Inclusivity", > which I then did, but after showing it to a few people I promptly became > too afraid to disseminate it any further. > > At the highly galvanising workshop that Emily Riehl organised last month > on "Professional Norms in Mathematics", many participants urged me to > share it, come what may. So here it is. > > I'm not quite sure what to suggest is done with it but here are some > suggestions: > > a) Conference organisers who believe in it could include it (or a version > of it) on the conference website, in conference announcements, and even > acknowledge it out loud at the start of a conference. > > b) Individuals could include it (or a version of it) on their own > webpages, as I have now done here: > > http://eugeniacheng.com/inclusivity/ > > Incidentally, on this page I have also included a link to Spectra, the > association for LGBTQ+ mathematicians, where everyone can sign up to the > Out List or the Ally List. > > http://www.lgbtmath.org/ > > c) Someone more technically adept than me could make a sign-up form so > that we could compile a list of people in the community who agree with > this. In the meantime, if you'd like to put your name to it you could > email me privately and I could add names to my page manually until the > administration of such an ad hoc system becomes too much for me. > > > Best wishes, > Eugenia > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]