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Part 2 of my responses to reader comments on "Decolonizing Astronomy"
More reader comments in response to my recent post "Decolonizing Astronomy:"Alma Ruiz Velasco writes: Thank you for your article, I found it very interesting. I am an astronomer too and I find very...
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James Baldwin on American Mythology
One day I'll be able to say it as clearly and eloquently as Baldwin. Until then, I'll read and imitate until I can do him and his lessons to me proper justice.“The American Negro has the great...
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Diamonds in the Rough
Every Black astro/physicist is a diamond in the rough. By making it to wherever they are in their careers, they are stronger than you can imagine. Many of them are the descendants of a long line of...
View ArticleOops, you did racism a favor
This is a guest post by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, my astro/physics colleague and one of my social justice instructors. Chanda is intelligent and insightful, and an important voice in the astro/physics...
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"Wait, reverse racism isn't a thing?"
As a quick followup on Chanda's guest post yesterday about unintended but real consequences of the words our leaders use, allow me to make one fact abundantly clear: There is no such thing as reverse...
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Homework for Those Seeking to be Allies
Today's guest post is by Dr. Sarah Ballard, a Carl Sagan postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, and soon-to-be Torres Fellow at MIT. I am very much looking forward to her return to...
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When should we stop listening to oppressed people?
On the Astronomers Facebook page, Dr. David Spiegel asks a very straightforward yet, to date, unanswered question regarding the TMT debate:On the one hand, there are some people (whether a fractionally...
View ArticleReader Feedback: Whither Kanake in (white) Astronomy?
Watching the way that the debate about the TMT has come into our field has angered and saddened me so much. Outward blatant racism and then deflecting and defending. I don't want to post this because I...
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On Chilean Astronomy and Observatory Conflicts
The following guest post is brought to you by Joshua Tan, who I met on the Equity & Inclusion in Astronomy and Physics Facebook page. Joshua is a FONDECYT postdoctoral fellow at Universidad...
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I am one of the "antisocial seven!"
I am a member of the "antisocial seven" who were recently labeled as troublemakers in the astronomy community. If the "social" in antisocial refers to the current culture and societal structure of...
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Why Don't You Care?
This guest post is contributed by a UC Berkeley student who requested anonymity, not for fear of the faculty in their department, but because of fear of reprisal from her fellow students. This fear...
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Guest post by Dimitri Robert Dounas-Frazer on Learning How to Be a White...
Today's guest blogger is Dimitri Robert Dounas-Frazer, a frequent poster in the Equity & Inclusion Facebook Page, and a white man who allies as a verb. Dimitri earned his PhD in physics from UC...
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What to do when you hurt someone: Stop talking, start listening
Guest post by Renée HlozekThere have been a lot of emotions flaring within the larger astronomy community. There have been friendships severed and alliances forged while debates raged in the open...
View ArticleMINERVA is a fully operational robotic telescope array
Video courtesy of PlaneWave Telescopes:
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I love white people. Seriously!
I've been getting a lot of email, private Tweets, and Facebook private messages that seem to be expressing a common theme: "Why don't you like white people? Why are you so bitter against white people?...
View ArticleExamining My Whiteness
by ErinIn his last post, John posed the following questions:What does it mean for you to be white in the US, or Western Europe, or the world?How does your whiteness affect the conversations you have in...
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Confronting My Own Racism
I am a white woman, and I have spent most of my life not thinking about race. Not in a "we live in a post-racial America" type of way, but just that on an everyday level it didn't really come up that...
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False Binaries and Good Schools
Guest post by Erin The notion that two types of schools, “good” vs “bad” has never sat well with me. In short, I've come to see this as a false binary, and a particularly damaging one at that. It...
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The Banneker Institute at Harvard: Summer of 2015
Looking back at my blog this Summer I was both surprised and not surprised that the last post dates back to the beginning of July, more than a month ago! It's surprising in the way that time often...
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