From the beginnings of our work on this conference, transparency was a central goal. Because queerness celebrates difference as a foundational principle, we knew that we could not represent all queer experiences in PER. Furthermore, queer-ing PERC 2022 includes queer-ing how we take in feedback and share our processes. Therefore, through transparency, we aim to hold ourselves accountable to the queer community in physics and PER, as well as other marginalized communities in our professional spaces.  

In particular, we expect that we will not be perfect, and that despite our best work, the needs and expectations of everyone in our communities will not be fully met. In recognizing that reality, we want to externalize our intentions, rationales, and processes to aid in mutual understanding as things arise. We have been externalizing these processes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VsyyVXF_7ncUdX-uhdhqdjmpN8f5sfhDPJ_mxmFP90M/edit?usp=sharing 

We are open to conversations around our organizing approach, in fact, we understand such conversations as aligned with the theme of queerness, community, and collective efforts. We hope that our mistakes and learning moments can also serve to support future work and make physics spaces better. We recognize that our work here goes beyond just conference organizing. In some ways, our efforts are themselves a form of academic activism and scholarship. We hope that our work on this conference opens up the practice of physics education research, physics education more generally, and physics as a whole to others, especially those for whom those spaces were not as open in the past.

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