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

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a particle cosmologist and social epistemologist at the University of Washington. Her physics research focuses on inflation and the dark matter candidate with the best name, the axion. Her research in social epistemology centers on Black women in physics. She is also the editor in chief of The Offing, a literary magazine publishing in all genres.
Toxic Masculine Cosmology
Cosmologists are obsessed with origin stories. We are the physicists and astronomers who take on the task of explaining why spacetime and its ...