Because they want to make the rubble bounce

if monkey pox infects a male with every 0.37 sexual encounters, and there are 12,000 attendees at Provincetown’s 3-day Bear Weekend, each having sex with 19 PARTNERS PER 24 HOURS, HOW MANY CASES of monkey pox WILL THERE BE BY sunday night?

”Queer Mathematic camp without math, why?

Founded in 1915, the Mathematical Association of America was a professional organization focused on math accessible at the undergraduate level. Now that math has been declared an irrelevant remnant of the civilization once run by dead white men, the MAA has reinvented itself as progressive indoctrination machine, one that’s in tune with today’s ethos.

While LGBTQ+ identity is often relegated to the margins and ignored in subjects like mathematics, “Camp” of Mathematical Queeries was created to resist this normative view. Our program was designed to illustrate that students’ LGBTQ+ identities are powerful assets to be utilized in the nurturing of positive mathematical identity. Our program honors the sentiments of Ocean Vuong, who wrote,

…[W]hen I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, ‘Is this enough for me?’

Our program taps into LGBTQ+’s folx natural propensity to explore alternative routes and ask questions that others may not. We believe this is exactly the liberatory approach needed to radically transform how we view what counts as mathematics and what it means to be mathematical.

The methods and ideas for “Camp” of Mathematical Queeries has been inspired by a number of sources including (but not limited to!):

Kai Rands’ works in mathematical Inqu[ee]ry
Alexander S. Moore’s work on the “Queer Identity Intersection of Mathematics Education”
Luis Leyva’s work on mathematics as a white, masculine space
Kyne Santos’ (from Canada’s Drag Race!) Tiktok math videos.
Rochelle Gutierrez’s work in creative insubordination and rehumanizing mathematics
Brown and Walter’s work on mathematical problem posing
Lessons from the book High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice
The work of programs such as Indigenous STEAM, Girls STEM Institute, Girls who Code, and Love & LiteraTea

What Math Will We Learn?

That will be up to you! This is not a traditional enrichment camp or school program. Our program is completely student generated. While we may provide a specific context (e.g., mathematics re: queer representation in media) at various points throughout the program, students will be encouraged to pose whatever mathematical questions they find interesting related to that context (as well as other contexts they generate themselves). For this reason, there is no prescribed mathematical content that we will learn in the program. The mathematics we learn will depend entirely upon the questions students choose to explore and the mathematics that might aid them in that exploration. Similarly, we will never have required assignments or anything like a traditional school assignment. The goal of the program is to provide a space for mathematical play, discovery, and joy for LGBTQ+ students and for them to engage with mathematics in ways they find interesting and comfortable.

Converting inches to centimeters, perhaps? Circumference vs diameter? Oh, the joys of summer camp!