Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a contributing editor to Public Books. A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist at the University of New Hampshire, she is also a theorist of Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. She is the author of an award-winning book for general audiences on particle physics and social issues in science, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Bold Type, 2021). She is now at work on her second book, The Edge of Space-Time.

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Writing on Public Books

Literary Experiments and Black Southern Time Travel with Kiese Laymon

“My reckoning with the Black South was an attempt to give integrity and texture to my belief that I was an Afrikan with a ‘k.’”

Chains of Domination, Chains of Solidarity: Benjamin L. McKean on Justice, Solidarity, Supply Chains

“For good or ill, freedom and solidarity and social justice are not things we can get quickly.”

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

“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

“How might scientific storytelling, or stories of science, shape the struggle for liberation?”[none-for-homepage]

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 …