Mathématiqueer

Mathématiqueer Editorial Policy and Values.

11/24/2025

The creation of Mathématiqueer came from a need to resist LGBTQIA+phobic discrimination in the world of Mathematics. This grassroots project arises from a desire to act, meet each other, and organize, where previously we had been isolated and had lacked the ability to help others who experienced discrimination.

Goals:
The goal of Mathématiqueer is to help queer people in mathematics and computer science to meet each other and organize, as well as giving them a platform and a voice. Mathématiqueer also shares relevant resources.

Audience:
Mathématiqueer is a website by LGBTQIA+ people for LGBTQIA+ people and allies in the world of Mathematics, Computer Science and Academia.

Types of content:

• Resources: Mathématiqueer gathers and shares resources for queer people in academia and professional settings. This includes (among others) links to specialized organisations and to training courses that can be shared with institutions. Moreover, it includes official texts and various guides (such as about name change procedures, about the reduction of discriminatory biases, etc.)
• Portraits: Mathématiqueer shares portraits of queer people in Mathematics, Computer Science and connected fields. These can take the shape of interviews, or articles on people who left their mark in history.
• Conferences: Mathématiqueer shares information about conferences, meetings and workshops at the intersection of Mathematics or Computer Science and LGBTQIA+themes. This is to help raise awareness and facilitate the building queer networks in these fields.
• Articles: Mathématiqueer offers a more free-form format to allow the community to express itself, share stories, essays, writing workshops etc.
• Finally, Initiatives carried out by Mathématiqueer. These are presented as articles to share collaborative projects born inside the group.

Commitment and Values
We are conscious that LGBTQIA+phobic discrimination is part of a global system of domination. Wanting to help every queer person, we would like to be explicit about our commitments, values and aspirations: to go against any system of discimination, exploitation and domination.

We try to be as independent as possible from structures based on exploitation

• We avoid as much as possible any dependence on GAFAM (Goggle, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft), in particular if there are alternatives. For example, our website and our email adress are hosted by DeuxFleurs, a French non-profit organization.
• We ban the use of generative AI whose functioning is based on the exploitation of people and the environment.

We advocate for radical inclusion

• We make our website and our projects as accessible as we can. In particular, through the use of the font Atkinson Hyperlegible designed by the Braille Institute of America to improve legibility and readability for individuals with low vision and dyslexia, and through suitable alternative text to describe images..
• We use gender neutral language. In French, we take inspiration from Alpheratz grammar.
• We give a voice to all and we remain aware of our own sexist, racist, ableist, etc... biases.

We encourage a collaborative organization

• We know that it is easy to have areas of ignorance, in particular on subjects we are not personally connected to and have limited knowledge about, so we remain open to suggestions for how to improve ourselves and correct our mistakes. Thus this list might evolve with us.
• Everyone can contribute as much as they want and are able to.
• We think about how we can minimize hierarchical dynamics due to different position in academia and along career trajectories.

We recognize the political context in which we live

• In particular, we are vigilant to not neglect women and trans people whose right are especially under attack.
• We recognize and support victims of colonization, such as in Palestine and Kanaky.

We can then summarize our approach as aspiring to be Anti-LGBTQIA+phobia, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Racist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Ableist, Feminist and collaborative.

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