Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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.
 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 |
Quotes
| « | 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] | » |
References
- ↑ Website bio, retrieved May 17, 2020
- ↑ Twitter bio, retrieved May 17, 2020
- ↑ Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda (July 29, 2015). "Hold Fast to Blackness". Medium. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- ↑ Jones, by Nicola (20 April 2018). "Whose Physics Is It Anyway? Q&A with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein". fqxi.org. 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. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
- ↑ McNeill, Leila (9 May 2019). "Bonus: Talking Feminist Astrophysics with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein". Lady Science. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
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