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.
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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