We often talk about how repressive major social media platforms owned by far-right billionaires are. But how can we reimagine beyond these spaces? What does a feminist digital world look like and who gets to build it? Ann Daramola is reimagining technology with Pariwo. rpublc.com/june-july-20...

In honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, I wrote this article for republic.com.ng, exploring how African feminist thought invites us to question what it means to be a "feminist human" in an anti-rights era. republic.com.ng/february-mar...

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

My latest article on republic.com.ng explores how the TikTok refugee/ RedNote migration anxieties mirror global patterns of queer displacement. Especially how Western digital 'freedom' narratives entirely depend on portraying non-Western spaces as repressive Others🧵 republic.com.ng/february-mar...

Glorified copy-paste machines! Always a learning experience listening & reading Dr Abeba Birhane’s work @abeba.bsky.social. She reminds us that critique is an important service especially as harmful systems are more and more disguised by hype fueled by AI profiteers. Thank you for your work, Dr B!

In Chicago for African Studies Association with my mama 💫 I freedom-dreamed an African feminist land & oceanic decolonial critique of Big Tech's digital colonialism, the slavery codes of Google's Equiano subsea cable & African bodies remaining still scripts for data and digital labor exploitation.

So excited to meet and listen to the authors of “Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech” tomorrow! #AIAINetwork

I had an incredible long weekend at UC Davis with the Imagining America staff, PAGE co-directors, my incredible cohort and the undergrad fellows! Public/Scholar is the most important site of liberation and this weekend was so generative. I felt so well taken care of 💖

Exciting update! I've been selected as an @ImaginingAmer Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow! It's a dream to collaborate with this brilliant cohort of publicly engaged scholars as we envision an academy in service of our communities✨ imaginingamerica.org/pagefellows_20…

For The Republic Nigeria, I wrote about why a decolonial African feminism matters. From our pre-colonial ideas on gender to today’s tech exploitation, we must build lifelines for our futures from the legacies of our foremothers. Read my/our manifesto: republic.com.ng/february-mar...

So excited to share my interview with The Republic “first draft” where I discuss my writing process for “An African Feminist Manifesto” (link below), my influences, & current work on African feminist digital cultures. Really love my illustration by Kevwe Ogini! republic.com.ng/june-july-20...

New article out!!! Please DM for a copy if you wish to engage: academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

So I won the BGSU Grad College Distinguished Thesis Award, for my thesis on the hashtags & networks of feminist & queer justice during #EndSARS! 🥹 @cyberdivalive.bsky.social is the best advisor ever. And I’m truly honored that the work to bring these herstories to life won an award! bit.ly/42B7lLj

I didn't think how I can emphasize enough how much passport privilege makes academia worth doing. What do you mean I have to wait six months for visa approval while the conference is next month?! 🤧

OpenAI this werk quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy, which seeks to dictate how powerful and immensely popular tools like ChatGPT can be used. https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt/

And a week later, this post is valid again. Rest gently Dr Antoinette Candia-Bailey. This academy did not deserve you. I hope you find peace and comfort in your heaven.

"the researchers suggest [ChatGPT] could improve by being specifically and selectively trained on accurate and trustworthy medical literature—not stuff on the Internet." So basically, the way to improve ChatGPT is to send it to medical school.

Last year, in a WGSS pro sem, I commented the US Academy was littered with the corpses of Black women. Black women, made visible only to the extent that they do not speak or radically change the status quo. BW, archived on shelves to fulfill the PR quota of the Academy & tossed away without care.

I grew up in a household where the last day of the year was spent cleaning the house from top to bottom because you can't transfer dirt into a new year. Just before midnight, we’d gather in the living room and sing/dance till the clock struck 12, and then we’d scream “Happy New Year.”

Hashtag Activism is a pivotal resource for my work on Nigerian feminist/queer hashtag activism in the context of #EndSARS. The incredibly nuanced synthesis of network analysis, feminist theorizing and an approach that recognized activists as legitimate coauthors of the discourses they created! 💯

A huge part of researching Nigerian feminist cultures is that my interlocutors and I end up becoming tightly-knit sisthren community. Met with a dear friend today. We called their mom and she had the sweetest affirming message for me and basically declared that her child & I are cousins now 😄

On a much deserved holiday back home in Nigeria, but the anxiety radio in my head is questioning the fact that I'm living my best lounging life when I've got deadlines to meet! There's a constant tune of "Hey brain, why are we napping?" 😴📝 #HolidayDilemmas