It is no secret that graduate school is a time of immense stress and anxiety. Balancing coursework, research, relationships, mental health, and student finances is hard enough; and being queer makes this all the more challenging. Reflecting on my personal experiences, I will describe ways that mathematics departments can support their queer graduate students. I will also describe what prospective and current graduate students can do to feel heard, included, and not alone.

Bio: Joseph is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware with a research focus on developing efficient and robust algorithms for solving partial differential equations, with a particular emphasis on plasma physics applications. Raised near Seattle, he stayed close to home and got his BS in applied mathematics from Seattle University. Joseph is the current Membership Committee Chair on Spectra's board of directors, as well as a co-founder of the Queer and Trans Graduate Student Union at the University of Delaware. He has written an MAA Math Values Blog article on LGBTQ+ inclusivity in mathematics departments, co-organized the AMS-sponsored posters celebrating LGBTQ+ mathematicians, been a panellist at the JMM22 Spectra workshop, and is an organizer of the upcoming SIAM AN22 minisymposium showcasing LGBTQ+ applied mathematicians.