Highlighting the stories of people of colour in STEM
Announcements
Hello everyone,
It’s been a while! Due to the pressures of a PhD, POC2 will continue to be on hiatus until 2025!
Please check out our new page INTERMISSION. Based all around our struggles and how we are attempting to manage it as we transition into this next stage in our lives. If you’re interested in anti-capitalism, slow productivity, calm and refreshing work flows and reclaiming rest as a radical from of resistance, this could will be for you!
If you need to get in touch, you can always contact us through our contact us page. 💖
In solidarity,
The POC2 team.
Thanks to a grant from The Royal Astronomical Society we have been able to pay undergraduates and other early career researchers (masters students, PhD students and postdocs) from magnialised backgrounds to write for us! Please see our blog for their amazing work and see this page for more information on our next recruitment round.💖🌟🔭
Who are we? What do we do?
We are a social enterprise and activist group run by three women of colour physics graduates that works to instill systematic change in academia. Our golas are:
- To get more BAME hopefuls into paying jobs in STEM. It should be stressed here that we mean all BAME hopefuls, not just the cishet-able-bodied-neurotypical ones. We live and die by our intersectionality.
- To decolonise STEM curriculums.
- To highlight the works of scientists of colour, both throughout history and today.
For more in-depth information please see our “our story” and ” “meet the team” pages.
Podcast🎙️🎧
Yes we are Soundcloud rappers. Yes we have a podcast. In fact its been affectionately dubbed a left leaning, science ethics podcast. Made by scientists, for everyone. Find it for 🆓 on our Podcast Page where links are available to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Soundcloud.
Blog 👩🏿💻
We are dedicated to writing about people of colour who have succeeded in STEM despite the obstacles they have faced. There are many interesting individuals, as well as amazing examples of science in communities across the world and throughout history, that we rarely hear about and are seldom featured in mainstream curriculums. Below is a couple of our favourite posts but you can find them all on our blog!
POC Squared 