RUME 28
2026
Alexandria, Virginia
Tugging on Threads: A Loving Self-Critique of Our (White) Comforts
Page: 54
The ACT UP Math project was a multi-institutional research practice partnership (RPP) formed to engage students, faculty, and administrators in collective equity-oriented work for critical change in undergraduate mathematics programs. Through careful critique of our own decisions and results, we identify opportunities with which we could have embraced greater criticality, especially in relation to disrupting our own white comfort. In doing so, we aim to provide guidance on better practices to enact when engaging in critical work. We orient ourselves to this critique with (critical) love, engaging with love for ourselves with the goal of growth as researchers, love for the research we do with the goal of growth for our field, and love for the research participants with whom we partnered with the goal of learning from one another.