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Letter to the Astronomy Community
July 21, 2020
To the astronomy community,
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It is irresponsible and wrong to continue operating as if everything is “normal,” and this long-overdue commitment to change in astronomy should happen without delay. It is essential that we commit to: centering the voices of people with marginalized identities, productively addressing injustices, lobbying institutional leadership to change discriminatory policies, codify codifying structural support for minoritized astronomers, examining and dismantling our individual and systemic biases, and collaboratively evaluating the goals that we have in the astronomical community. Since 2015, the Inclusive Astronomy (IA) conference series has strived for these goals. We believe that now, as much as ever, we need conferences such as this one to facilitate a space for change, healing, and growth within the astronomical community.
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We thank everyone that helped us build this document, particularly the people that highlighted our missteps and disagreed with our actions. This gave us an opportunity to be reflective and account for our own contributions to the community. Our experience has shown us that building this path forward is not a linear or easy one and that it will take all of us.
Thank you,
The IA2 LOC
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Recommendations for Planning Inclusive Astronomy Conferences
Below are the Recommendations for Planning Inclusive Astronomy Conferences written by the IA2 LOC (in PDF and editable Word format). Please use, build upon, and redistribute these recommendations.
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You can reference the document as follows: “Recommendations for Planning Inclusive Astronomy Conferences, Inclusive Astronomy 2 Local Organizing Committee, July 2020”, the arXiv link is coming soon.available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10970
Contact Information
Please reach out to the LOC here for more information, questions or feedback, or contact members of the Organizing Committees.
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