Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Prescod-Weinstein at Becoming Interplanetary talk at the Library of Congress, 2018
Date of birth	August 23, 1982
Place of birth	El Sereno, Los Angeles, USA
Nationality	American
Pronouns	she/her
Gender identity	agender woman
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. In 2010, she became the 63rd black American woman to earn a PhD in physics. She has a book The Disordered Cosmos which was published in February 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.

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