A Guide to My Writing for the Public
Science, Science & Society, Race, Gender, & Justice
(as of 2/22/2017, and inclusive of writing on non-Medium sites. My website is less comprehensive but will probably be updated somewhat more frequently.)
Guides for Students
Surviving and Thriving: How to be a URM astro/physics student, part 1
Surviving and Thriving, part 2: Doing Research as a URM astro/physics student
Surviving and Thriving Part 3: Understand What Affirmative Action REALLY Is
Surviving and Thriving as a URM in Astro|Physics 4: Endless Death Seems Endlessly Endless
20 Warning Signs Your Professor’s Abusing You
Reading Lists
Decolonising Science Reading List
A U.S./Canadian Race & Racism Reading List
Science
Translating the Universe: Remembering Trailblazing Astrophysicist Vera Rubin
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Cosmic Acceleration?
How Black Holes Saved Relativity
Turning the Universe Up a Notch
The h-Index Is a Lie: A Bibliography of Truth
Philosophy of Science
Making Meaning of “Decolonising”
Intersectionality as a Blueprint for Postcolonial Scientific Community Building
(Academic) Housework: The Engine of Science (& Society)
Ain’t I a Woman? At the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
In Which A Religious Text Speaks To Scientific Culture
Decolonising Science Reading List
Science, Society, & Diversity
Making Meaning of “Decolonising”
Black Semitic Girl Reader at the Airport
Don’t Make Them Serve The Diversity
How To Make a Real Commitment to Diversity
The Broader Impact of Broader Impacts: Scientists & their Diversity Props
How to Talk to Minorities, Part 1
How to Talk to Minorities, Part 2
20 Warning Signs Your Professor’s Abusing You
(Cis) Women Aren’t the Only Minoritized Gender
WHAT’S THE HARM IN TONE POLICING?
Here’s What It’s Like When Self-Appointed High Priests of Reality Presume Your Incompetence
Being Marked For Speaking Truth to Power: There’s a Physical and Emotional Cost To This
On Astronomers & Acceptable Anger: Hordes of Natives & Angry White Women
Racism (On Campus) is a Public Health Crisis
#FireMarcy, #AstroSA & #BlackLivesMatter
In Which A Religious Text Speaks To Scientific Culture
Intersectionality as a Blueprint for Postcolonial Scientific Community Building
Still Working For Free: The Unpaid Labor of Blackademics
Using Black People Stuff In Your Activism: A How To
Ko Kākou Struggle: 15 Voices on Where to Go Next
A Better Version of Us Is Possible
Cowardice, Astronomy, and Fascism
Yom Kippur Haftorah: Black Lives Matter
White Opinions on Black Lives: 1600–2015
Ain’t I a Woman? At the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
This is Urgent: Black Scientists Matter
Do Not Be Afraid To Be Black and STEM
Let Astro | Physics Be The Dream It Used To Be
Let Astro | Physics Be The Dream It Used To Be (One year later)
Still Working for Free: The Unpaid Labor of Blackademics
Love and Feminist Loss in The Trump Age of Masculinity
Are you dealing with an angry (Black) woman? Help is here!
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Appropriates Black Movement to Attack Palestinian Movement
Getting Physicists to Invest in Caring, Not Killing: Who Takes Responsibility?
History
Cowardice, Astronomy, and Fascism
Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Translating the Universe: Remembering Trailblazing Astrophysicist Vera Rubin
Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA (introduction)
Yes, Slavery Happened in the Caribbean Too
Black Lives Matter, Taiwan’s “228” Incident, and the Transnational Struggle for Liberation
Intersectionality as a Blueprint for Postcolonial Scientific Community Building
Interviews with Me/Media Profiles/Media Quotes
(more a/v available here)
Meet The 63rd Black Woman In American History With A Physics Ph.D.
Tiny dark matter stars would harbour particles that act as one
5 Amazing Women Astronomers You Should Know
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD: A Day in the Life of an Astrophysicist
Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Times Six: Finding a Language for Borders, Theft, and History
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Uses This
These 73 Gorgeous Black Female Scientists Inspire Us & The World
The ‘Offing’ Looks Ahead After Editor Resigns
Behind the Editor’s Desk: Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
#LitMagLove: The Offing’s Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
What The Hell Is Going On With Dark Energy?
On Police Brutality, Who Are We To Believe?
#IStandWithAhmed Lesson: Curiosity is for white kids
Advice to Malia Obama on How to Make the Most of Harvard
Are the Nobel Prizes Missing Female Scientists?
Why The Universe Needs More Black and Latino Astronomers
Scientific Stars Join Activists: Noted Palestinian Professor Arrested and Released — Again
Black scientists respond to Scalia’s suggestion that ‘less advanced’ classes are more suitable
Petitions
Short statement about the use of racist language in astronomy and physics.
PLEASE SIGN: Ask American Physical Society for a #BlackLivesMatter Statement
