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| picture= | | picture=Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Becoming Interplanetary.jpg | ||
| caption= | | caption=Prescod-Weinstein at Becoming Interplanetary talk at the Library of Congress, 2018 | ||
| date_birth= | | date_birth=August 23, 1982 | ||
| place_birth=El Sereno, Los Angeles, USA | | place_birth=El Sereno, Los Angeles, USA | ||
| nationality=American | | nationality=American | ||
| pronouns=[[she/her]]<ref>[http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/ Website bio], retrieved May 17, 2020</ref> | | pronouns=[[she/her]]<ref>[http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/ Website bio], retrieved May 17, 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230308102557/http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | ||
| gender=[[nonbinary woman|agender woman]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/ Twitter bio], retrieved May 17, 2020</ref> | | gender=[[nonbinary woman|agender woman]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/ Twitter bio], retrieved May 17, 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230716190349/https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | ||
| occupation=cosmologist, writer, activist | | occupation=cosmologist, writer, activist | ||
| known_for= | | known_for= | ||
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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> | '''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]. | ||
==Quotes== | |||
{{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>}} | |||
==Links== | |||
*[https://www.instagram.com/chanda.prescod.weinstein/ Instagram] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category: Activists]] | [[Category: Activists]] | ||
[[Category: Nonbinary people]] | [[Category: Nonbinary people]] | ||
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