Here is a piece I wrote (and presented at a conference) about the importance of recognizing the difference between Black and white women's stories of exclusion in STEM:https://medium.com/@chanda/hidden-figures-is-a-black-not-white-womens-story-62bc646dd9d2 …
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Here are remarks I made in a parallel session at the 2017 Society for the Social Studies of Science meeting, about who is allowed to be seen as a researcher:https://medium.com/@chanda/black-women-physicists-in-the-wake-ebf2cdeadb1a …
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Here is an invited, peer-reviewed article I wrote for Nature Astronomy about intersectionality and lessons I have learned about discrimination in high energy physics and astronomy:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0145 …
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Free version is available here:https://medium.com/@chanda/curiosity-and-the-end-of-discrimination-d33ed9a22e3f …
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Here are the written remarks I made to the Yale Critical Histories, Activist Futures conference on history of science, in which I discuss how Black women physicists are shaped by social forces:https://medium.com/space-anthropology/decolonizing-science-by-reconstructing-observers-d62168fca19f …
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I have also been maintaining the Decolonising Science Reading List:https://medium.com/@chanda/decolonising-science-reading-list-339fb773d51f#.om5w2ivfq …
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On that list there is an important book on African astronomy that is co-edited by the aforementioned expert, Jarita Holbrook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-6639-9 …
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I also run a facebook group that I founded for Black women and gender minorities in physics and astronomy. Meanwhile, Jedidah Isler is the head of
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Any one of us would have been eleventy times more qualified to give a talk at a workshop on gender and high energy physics than some random dude who swore up and down, Kavanaugh style lying through his teeth, that he'd say nice things about women in physics.
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Btw, every crack pot who sends us an email saying that he's figured out that relativity is wrong because infinity is god also is promising to say good things about an area where clearly he is not an expert. Yet, we do not invite him to headline American Physical Society meetings.
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"Many white scholars fall short of academic rigor b/c they can succeed, b published,&thus paraded as the fatted calf at the expense of better qualified&more knowledgeable scholars of color. They can do this b/c institutional racism continues 2 support a white affirmative action."
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