Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Ezra Klein shut the fuck up challenge

I don’t wish any of this on Iranians or on the US soldiers who are being sent to kill and be killed It’s all awful

Very confused by people who think folks in Maine don’t know about Platner‘s tattoos already “It will come up in the general” It’s come up in the primary! And he has since pulled away with the lead. Are you under the impression more conservative voters won’t like it?

Also I will be in Chicago on April 22! I will be in conversation with @moyazb.bsky.social and Women and Children First 🌈 Grab a preorder from them and then get it signed that evening 🥹 Or come see us and then get it at the library! womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2026-0...

Gotta add to my earlier comment about how nonfiction has range that it took me years to return to fiction after my marriage to my ex-wife ended because so much of fiction is about human relationships and the difficulties we face in them Fiction can be quite depressing lol

Lane has made a very cool looking tarot deck. I don’t believe tarot has any supernatural value but I love the way it can get you thinking about your life. Maybe try this one out? www.soundstrue.com/products/78-...

We are at this stage of the Holocaust — in Ohio, which hasn’t gotten much attention recently. “In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.” #GiftLink courtesy of my library:

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Thank you for your work with libraries!