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Ayush Gupta (they/them/theirs)
Ayush Gupta (they/them/theirs)

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Dec 17, 2022

When did you know?

When did I know? I know what you mean, and yet I want to scream What do you really mean? When did I start playing with bedsheets? To fashion saris, frocks, and dupatta out of it Or, when did I learn that I should lock the door when doing that? Panic and…

Transgender

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Transgender

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Dec 17, 2022

Engineering Reform

(Engineering) Reform the new god shall wear skins of old gods trinkets of justice too and drink from the same cup fresh salty tears

Reform

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Reform

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Dec 17, 2022

On Niceness

(talk given at a panel on the notion of niceness within academic spaces) “My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to use it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it…

Equity

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Equity

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Nov 13, 2021

The case for including pronouns of authors in publications

The case for including pronouns of authors in publications This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave as a panelist at the 2021 Gender Summit (GS20 Latin America) [Plenary 7: Widening access to science knowledge and research publications, As part of the 2021 Gender Summit (GS20 Latin…

Nonbinary

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Nonbinary

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Mar 25, 2021

Further thoughts on “Decolonization in Not a Metaphor”

In 2017, I wrote a blog post trying to grapple with some of the ideas in the paper: Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 1(1). I wanted to develop my thoughts a little bit more. Tuck and Yang make…

Decolonization

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Decolonization

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Nov 22, 2020

Discourse of Objectivity

Discourse of objectivity In a recent discussion with some colleagues, I found myself making the argument that knowledge is subjective and the stamp of who does the knowing is imprinted on the knowledge. I struggled to come up with examples in the context of math and physics that were as…

Diversity

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Diversity

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Oct 28, 2019

Remembering Hunter

There was pet hair on the floor. I hadn’t been able to vacuum for the past week. As I run the vacuum cleaner, I realize that some of these are Hunter’s hairs. Some of the last remains of his physical body. I didn’t request to get Hunter’s ashes. It didn’t…

Dogs

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Remembering Hunter
Remembering Hunter
Dogs

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Oct 19, 2019

On being brown, immigrant, queer, scholar: Part 1

When I was growing up, I didn’t really think about being brown. Well, not in the way that I think about it now. Growing up, I was quite aware that I wasn’t fair skinned, which was highly prized within the communities I grew up in. Fair-skin was the pathway to…

Identity

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Identity

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Aug 8, 2018

How tension arises and disperses during group-work in physics

I have been rather fortunate to be able to work with Erin Ronayne Sohr in the past few years, first in her role as a graduate student and now as a post-doc. Erin joined our project on how students learn quantum mechanics in 2014 or so, and we got to…

Science Education

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Science Education

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May 28, 2018

Reason and emotion

In 2008, Andrew Elby got funded a new grant to study mathematical sensemaking with students in introductory physics classes for engineers and in a couple of their followup courses in engineering. Andy, Eric Kuo, Brian Danielak, Michael Hull and I started working on the project. As part of the project…

Physics Education

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Physics Education

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Ayush Gupta (they/them/theirs)

Ayush Gupta (they/them/theirs)

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I do education research. Interested in emotions, ideology, epistemology, identity, values, ethics, and learning …

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