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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical physicist and feminist theorist at the University of New Hampshire. Her research in particle physics focuses primarily on the dark matter candidate with the best name, the axion. She is also a theorist of Black feminist science, technology and society studies. She is the author of a book for general audiences on particle physics and social issues in science, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. icon

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Public Thinker: Imani Perry on How to Understand “Souths Plural”

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

“At the end of the day, the America project was about an encounter with abundance that was responded to with greed and brutality.”

Public Thinker: Katherine McKittrick on Black Methodologies and Other Ways of Being

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

“How might scientific storytelling, or stories of science, shape the struggle for liberation?”

Toxic Masculine Cosmology

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Cosmologists are obsessed with origin stories. We are the physicists and astronomers who take on the task of explaining why spacetime and its ...

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