Re: Manifesto for Inclusivity

[John Huerta <john.huerta@gmail.com>]

I love it, Eugenia. Thanks for writing it. I think you found exactly the
right level of generality that we as mathematicians all seek.

I am eager to add my name as a signatory, if I may.

Best,

John Huerta

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 7:13 PM Eugenia Cheng <echeng4@saic.edu> 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
>

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