What to do when you’re about to/getting attacked, threatened, bullied online

Know that you are not alone, these hate attacks have happened to many of us. Reach out to the community and others you know to talk through what you're going through. Remove readily information personal information on the internet. Here's a few guides Crash Override's Resource Center for DIY Security How to keep personal information...

Templates for Letters of Support

Here is a template for writing a letter of support for colleagues who are under attack. Please use this to write letters of support. Dear Drs. [Insert administrators plus campus public relations liaison here], I recently learned that Dr. [Insert scholar’s name here] is the latest target of Campus Reform’s attack on faculty who do...

How to Support Colleagues Under Attack

(Paraphrased from Grollman's Inside Hire Ed article, "Scholars Under Attack") Individual-Level Strategies Assume that the targeted scholar is already aware of the attack against them.  Do not tag the targeted scholar on social media if and when you share links from the attack or stories about the attack. Offer to take over keeping up with...

About the MathEdCollective

The MathEdCollective came together to express and exhibit solidarity with U.S. mathematics educators and organizations under attack. The MathEdCollective has used various sources of inspiration in its organizing, including U.S. Civil Rights Era activism, works by Paulo Freire and bell hooks, and the hacker-activist group Anonymous. As the group grew in number and increased its...

Papers and Artifacts originating from the MathEdCollective

Gutiérrez, R. (2018). When Mathematics Teacher Educators Come Under Attack. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 6(2), 7. Gutiérrez, R. (2017). Why Mathematics (Education) was Late to the Backlash Party: The Need for a Revolution. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 10(2). Retrieved from https://journals.tdl.org/jume/index.php/JUME/article/view/347 The MathEdCollective. (2019). The Math Ed Collective: Collaborative action in an era of cyberbulling...

Attack on Prof. Rochelle Gutiérrez #IStandwithRochelle

Timeline: August 14, 2018. Daily Caller initiates attack on Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez for an abstract of her upcoming talk at the Mathematics Education & Society Conference in 2019, also citing her 2016 TODOS keynote paper titled "Strategies for Creative Insubordination in Mathematics Teaching," which can be read here. Feb 17, 2018. A local column in the...

Attacks on Math Ed PhD students Grace Chen and Jason Buell

August 14, 2018 Campus Reform attacks scholarship that appeared in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Education, by Grace Chen and Jason Buell, PhD students in math education. Their article, titled "Of models and myths: Asian(Americans) in STEM and the neoliberal racial project," can be read here.

Attacks on Profs. Eric “Rico” Gutstein and Paul Ernest

June 19, 2018 CampusReform wrote two articles attacking recent chapters by Drs. Eric "Rico" Gutstein and Paul Ernest published in the Springer ICME-13 Monograph, "The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today". A reminder to check out our Resources section for ways to support colleagues who are under attack. June 20, 2018 The National Review writes a...

Attack on Prof. Laurie Rubel #standWithLaurieRubel

  Jan 8, 2018. Toni Airaksinen of CampusReform writes a story criticizing Dr. Laurie Rubel’s recent JUME article. Jan 8, 2018. Daily Mail picks up the story. Jan 8, 2018. Neo-Nazi site Occidental Dissent attacks Dr. Rubel with anti-semitism. (Warning: Extreme racist language and images.) Jan 8, 2018. The Lid Blog attacks Dr. Rubel and...