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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an award-winning physicist, feminist, activist and the first Black woman to earn a PhD in the field of theoretical cosmology. Photo: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Every community guards a creation story, a theory of cosmic origins. In much of sub-Saharan West Africa, for the past few thousand years, itinerant storytellers known as griots have communicated these and other tales through song. Cosmologists also intone a theory of cosmic origins, known as the Big Bang, albeit through journal articles and math.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a cosmologist who is adept with both equations and “the keeper of a deeply human impulse” to understand our universe. In her first book,
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This is a guest post from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. She is a theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, and author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, out now from Bold Type Books. You can find her on Twitter @IBJIYONGI.
The last year has raised the political consciousness of people across the United States and the world who for various reasons had previously not paid much attention to the material conditions that shape the lives of people on the margins of American society, particularly Black folks. Thanks to the visibility brought by a new generation of freedom fighters under the banner of “Black Lives Matter,” work which is itself rooted in organizing work that goes back decades, the brutality of 2020 was impossible to ignore.
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Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Wants You to Know Science Is For Everyone
Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical cosmologist, talks to Shondaland about her new book, “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred”
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s debut popular science book, Jewish prayer, which reminds us that Black people aren’t dark matter but rather luminous matter, and stresses that spacetime isn’t straight or binary.
A professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Hampshire, and a core faculty member in Women’s and Gender studies, Prescod-Weinstein has written an exquisite book that seamlessly connects seemingly disparate topics: physics, Black feminist thought, anti-colonial theory.