What Oppression Feels Like
You sneak a glance at your cell phone. It says it’s 85 degrees out and only 3 minutes have passed since the last time you checked. You made the mistake of resting your arm on your notes and now they...
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An apology to my Facebook friends
I have a hard time executing goodbyes. I’m fine with the actual goodbyes, but initiating them on my own terms when the other people are otherwise occupied is sometimes too big of an obstacle for me to...
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There was a shooting the other night close enough to campus that I received an email about it. As I read the report, I found myself bracing to read the description of the suspect. Since I was a child,...
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mini update on my life
Maybe she should do something meaningful. (Image Description: A person with short hair juggles balls and poorly drawn bowling pins. Additional balls are shot from machines labeled “Teaching” and...
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Intro to Lattices
My thesis talks about “shapes” of “number fields,” but really what we’re looking at is shapes of lattices, and using MATH to go from “number fields” to lattices. So I thought it would be nice to give a...
View ArticleClass dismissed
Attention Allies: Many of us have been informally enrolled in at least one Ally Education course. Maybe it was a Facebook group. Maybe it was questioning your Token Marginalized Friend. We have been...
View ArticleStay Screaming
I’ve been going about my life, screaming internally, and people keep engaging in regular conversation with me and all I can think is, why are we not screaming? Why are we not actually just yelling and...
View ArticleGet Out The Way (Part 2)
My name is Piper Harron, and I consider myself a product of a color-blind, sexism-blind environment. Let me tell you, it sucked. I don’t mean to say that I was aware at every step how unhappy I was...
View ArticleThe mother I wanted to be
I still think about her sometimes. The mother I wanted to be. The parent I thought I would be, even though the woman in my mind has a grace and femininity that I could never feel at home with....
View ArticleIn Defense of Not Telling Me What TF I Can and Can’t Think About
This is just an angry little note to myself, because I understand I have no business talking about this. I am a mathematician, and a pure mathematician at that. I am a black woman who studies the...
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Intro to Lattices Continued: Matrices!
I spent years feeling like I didn’t know what a matrix truly was. I no longer feel that way, but I think it’s just because I gave up. I don’t think I really know any more about them now than I did when...
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Peli’s Vibes part 1: An Introduction
Today (and over the next few posts) I want to talk to you about work that my friend Peli Grietzer has been doing. But don’t worry, I’m still going to talk almost exclusively about myself. Peli’s work,...
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Peli’s Vibes part 2: Autoencoders!
Okay, and we’re back discussing Peli Grietzer‘s Theory of Vibe. Or, more importantly, Peli’s Theory of Vibe as I see it! Because he’s already explained it all quite a bit. Imitation is the Highest Form...
View ArticleInnocence
When someone is standing right in front of you and screaming in your face it is natural and understandable to cover your ears. When someone is standing right in front of you and speaking softly, it is...
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What they won’t see
I have been holding space with the Kia‘i ke Kahaukani since the Bachman sit-in began. I am neither student nor Kanaka, nor have I been able to spend the night (my kids have refused the exciting...
View Article#GaloisTweets
On Twitter dot com, I have been going through Galois Theory by Tom Leinster (PDF): Chapter 1: 1.1, 1.2 Chapter 2: 2.1, 2.2 Chapter 3: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 Chapter 4: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3a, 4.3b Chapter 5: 5.1, 5.2,...
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