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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Date of birth |
August 23, 1982 |
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Place of birth |
El Sereno, Los Angeles, USA |
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Nationality |
American |
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Pronouns |
she/her[1] |
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Gender identity |
agender woman[2] |
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Occupation |
cosmologist, writer, activist |
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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.[3] In 2010, she became the 63rd black American woman to earn a PhD in physics.[4] She has a book The Disordered Cosmos to be published in spring of 2021. 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.[5]
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