Last week at the 2015 BRIDGES Math-Arts Conference in Baltimore I gave a short talk on using poetry to celebrate and inspire math girls and women, to recognize achievements and to encourage speaking out -- and also to encourage staying and building community in what often is now a lonely field. Through a poem we can open doors that help us to talk about difficult issues -- such as isolation or loneliness or misgivings or discrimination.
A time-clock at BRIDGES kept me from saying all that I would have wished -- I would like to have quoted the following lines, spoken by a girl and found in "Hanging Fire" by Caribbean-American poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992).
from Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde
Nobody even stops to think
about my side of it
I should have been on the Math Team
my marks were better than his . . .
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Monday, August 3, 2015
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