At the Socialism 2025 session ‘Reclaiming the Future’
The “queer agender” University of New Hampshire physicist who argued “white empiricism” creates “barriers” for black women entering STEM fields recently claimed that non-binary folks grasp an aspect of quantum mechanics better than others.
At the July 4 Socialism 2025 Conference session titled “Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination,” Chanda Prescod-Weinstein said “There are good arguments for why, for example, non-binary people find wave-particle duality very straightforward.”
As in “Yes, you can be both at the same time.” (See here.)
Prescod-Weinstein also said those who are “freedom dreamers” (like herself) should “have access” to aspects of science which typically are populated by those who work in military endeavors.
According to the conference’s Instagram account, the “Reclaiming the Future” session is described as “a wide-ranging discussion about the ways space underpins technologies affecting people’s daily lives, the types of space labor that happen on Earth, and why space matters for the left’s future … and present!”
Prescod-Weinstein was joined by astronomer Lucian Walkowicz, co-founder of The JustSpace Alliance which advocates for “a more inclusive and ethical future in space.”
Other sessions at Socialism 2025 (some of which are available to view on YouTube) include “Indigenous Grounded Solidarity, Then and Now,” “Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law,” “Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition,” and “Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics.”
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At Socialism 2025, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein—a physics professor at the University of New Hampshire and Biden appointee to the Department of Energy’s High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which helps shape… pic.twitter.com/vqVOAYGYSC
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Prescod-Weinstein has been outspoken about various topics over the years. She criticized a Google employee’s skepticism about the company’s diversity policies as “shoddy science” that “supports a patriarchal view,” argued physics is influenced by “pro-white biases,” and claimed black antisemitism was due to the “influence of white gentiles.”
Perhaps the professor’s biggest peeve was that NASA’s most advanced space telescope was named after James Webb, the former head of the space agency whom Prescod-Weinstein claimed “acquiesc[ed] to homophobic government policies during the 1950s and 1960s.”
Despite a petition signed by over 1,700 “experts and students in the field” requesting NASA pick a new name for the device (Prescod-Weinstein had suggested Harriet Tubman), the agency declined following an investigation.
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