Brian Katz: Math Colloquium
Not Open to the Public
Wed, Oct 22, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Room 103, Darwin Hall
Event URL: Brian Katz: Math Colloquium
Contact Email: [email protected]
My Mathematics as a Queer Resistance to Toxic Masculinity. As a queer and gender-nonconforming person, I have experienced the toxic expectations of masculinity from some distance. Curiously, from this vantage point, masculinity seems to be a state of knowing rather than one of being in important ways that parallel doing mathematics. In this talk, I will discuss these parallels as well as some details of how I experience a queer mathematics as resistance to the toxic forms of both masculinity and mathematics. Don't worry, there will be lots of silly pop-culture references. Open to all students, faculty, and community members.