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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a cosmologist, science writer and equality activist based at the University of New Hampshire. She is of Barbadian descent on her mother's side and Russian-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent on her father's side.<ref name="holdfast">{{Cite web |title=Hold Fast to Blackness |last=Prescod-Weinstein |first=Chanda |work=Medium |date=July 29, 2015 |access-date=May 17, 2020 |url= https://medium.com/@chanda/hold-fast-to-blackness-3e4fa529917d}}</ref> In 2010, she became the 63rd black American woman to earn a PhD in physics.<ref name="Jones">{{Cite web |title=Whose Physics Is It Anyway? Q&A with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein |last=Jones |first=by Nicola |work=fqxi.org |date=20 April 2018 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/227}}</ref> She has a book ''The Disordered Cosmos'' | '''Chanda Prescod-Weinstein''' is a cosmologist, science writer and equality activist based at the University of New Hampshire. She is of Barbadian descent on her mother's side and Russian-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent on her father's side.<ref name="holdfast">{{Cite web |title=Hold Fast to Blackness |last=Prescod-Weinstein |first=Chanda |work=Medium |date=July 29, 2015 |access-date=May 17, 2020 |url= https://medium.com/@chanda/hold-fast-to-blackness-3e4fa529917d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424064323/https://medium.com/@chanda/hold-fast-to-blackness-3e4fa529917d |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> In 2010, she became the 63rd black American woman to earn a PhD in physics.<ref name="Jones">{{Cite web |title=Whose Physics Is It Anyway? Q&A with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein |last=Jones |first=by Nicola |work=fqxi.org |date=20 April 2018 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/227|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207110544/https://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/227 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> She has a book ''The Disordered Cosmos'' which was published in February 2021.<ref name="Ruzicka">{{Cite web |title=Reviews of the Week with Kelly Loy Gilbert, Sarah J. Maas, Tami Charles, and More! |last=Ruzicka |first=Michael |work=The Booklist Reader |date=March 1, 2021 |access-date=March 4, 2021 |url= https://www.booklistreader.com/2021/03/01/books-and-authors/reviews-of-the-week-with-kelly-loy-gilbert-sarah-j-maas-tami-charles-and-more/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105002658/https://www.booklistreader.com/2021/03/01/books-and-authors/reviews-of-the-week-with-kelly-loy-gilbert-sarah-j-maas-tami-charles-and-more/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> She often writes blog posts on intersectional social justice topics, and was a founding member of the American Astronomical Society's [https://aas.org/comms/sgma Committee for Sexual Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy]. | ||
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{{quote|I'm [[agender]] so I don't have an [[Gender identity|internal sense of gender]] but I do [...] present as femme, and I'm okay with my body, so I consider myself to be an agender [[Cissexual|cis-sex]] woman, so I'm not quite trans in the way that people normally envision what is a trans person.<ref name="McNeill">{{Cite web |title=Bonus: Talking Feminist Astrophysics with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | {{quote|I'm [[agender]] so I don't have an [[Gender identity|internal sense of gender]] but I do [...] present as femme, and I'm okay with my body, so I consider myself to be an agender [[Cissexual|cis-sex]] woman, so I'm not quite trans in the way that people normally envision what is a trans person.<ref name="McNeill">{{Cite web |title=Bonus: Talking Feminist Astrophysics with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein|author=McNeill, Leila |work=Lady Science |date=9 May 2019 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.ladyscience.com/podcast/talking-feminist-astrophysics-chanda-prescod-weinstein|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606180009/https://www.ladyscience.com/podcast/talking-feminist-astrophysics-chanda-prescod-weinstein |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:56, 17 July 2023
 Prescod-Weinstein at Becoming Interplanetary talk at the Library of Congress, 2018 | |
| Date of birth | August 23, 1982 |
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| Place of birth | El Sereno, Los Angeles, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Pronouns | she/her[1] |
| Gender identity | agender woman[2] |
| Occupation | cosmologist, writer, activist |
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a cosmologist, science writer and equality activist based at the University of New Hampshire. She is of Barbadian descent on her mother's side and Russian-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent on her father's side.[3] In 2010, she became the 63rd black American woman to earn a PhD in physics.[4] She has a book The Disordered Cosmos which was published in February 2021.[5] She often writes blog posts on intersectional social justice topics, and was a founding member of the American Astronomical Society's Committee for Sexual Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy.
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| « | I'm agender so I don't have an internal sense of gender but I do [...] present as femme, and I'm okay with my body, so I consider myself to be an agender cis-sex woman, so I'm not quite trans in the way that people normally envision what is a trans person.[6] | » |
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- ↑ Website bio, retrieved May 17, 2020 Archived on 17 July 2023
- ↑ Twitter bio, retrieved May 17, 2020 Archived on 17 July 2023
- ↑ Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda (July 29, 2015). "Hold Fast to Blackness". Medium. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- ↑ Jones, by Nicola (20 April 2018). "Whose Physics Is It Anyway? Q&A with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein". fqxi.org. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ↑ Ruzicka, Michael (March 1, 2021). "Reviews of the Week with Kelly Loy Gilbert, Sarah J. Maas, Tami Charles, and More!". The Booklist Reader. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
- ↑ McNeill, Leila (9 May 2019). "Bonus: Talking Feminist Astrophysics with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein". Lady Science. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
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