@abeba.bsky.social @sjjphd.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social
I think you would love this interview with the creator of “neno” as she reimagines the raw ingredients of digital progress through a story-first and community-owned platform with Black feminist and queer voices at the center.
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.
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"Screenshot from THE REPUBLIC website showing an article paragraph from Ololade's essay "On Being a Feminist Human in an Anti-Rights Era" about the challenges faced by trans, queer, and feminist individuals in Nigeria. The text describes these identities as being like 'wearing a red cloth before the bull of profound citizen bigots' and details the lack of legal protections for trans people who must create their own communities from scratch."
"Screenshot from THE REPUBLIC website showing a paragraph discussing feminism and human rights. The text argues that fighting to dehumanize sex workers betrays the fundamental feminist principle that women are human beings, and questions why acceptance must be based on denying the humanity of marginalized groups including sex workers, trans people, lesbians, and Black women."
"Screenshot from THE REPUBLIC website showing a paragraph warning against selectively adopting anti-rights rhetoric. The text states: 'We cannot selectively parrot the anti-rights movement's rhetoric and then be shocked when it expands to overturn all our rights. We cannot claim to be the only worthy people while marking out others for vitriol. There is no picking and choosing in the anti-rights agenda.'"
"Screenshot from THE REPUBLIC website featuring a paragraph about defensiveness in feminist spaces. The text discusses how the perception of hard-won victories being stripped away creates defensiveness, which the author describes as 'the very illusion of patriarchy.' It critiques how energy is directed against trans women instead of oppressors, making trans women 'the shield and the figure that bears the brunt of feminist rage.'"
Feminist movements have repeatedly created "figures of trouble" across history whose exclusion becomes seen as necessary to legitimize the movement. While the patriarchy launches "saving" women projects — dehumanization disguised as solidarity that reinforces the very structures oppressing us all.
Header of an article titled 'ON BEING A 'FEMINIST HUMAN' IN AN ANTI-RIGHTS ERA' from THE REPUBLIC. The image shows Ama Ata Aidoo and Patricia McFadden in conversation against an orange/coral background with graphic elements. The photo illustration is credited to Ezinne Osueke. Below the headline is the author name 'OLOLADE FANIYI' and date 'MARCH 2, 2025', followed by an introductory paragraph that states: “In an era of accelerating anti-rights movements, our feminist liberation depends not on narrowing the gates of belonging, but on dismantling the very logic of exclusion that has been weaponized against all women.”
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.
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With @omolaniyan.bsky.social’s “eternally displaceable strategic essentialism," I unpack how African queer communities navigate Western & indigenous frameworks to create meaning within constraints, and how we might move beyond both the false promise of elsewhere.
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I explore how this digital migration connects to "queer exportation" - where African nations tacitly encourage LGBTQ+ people to seek freedom abroad, creating a spiral where the myth of Western exceptionalism depends on the necropolitics of queer lives elsewhere.
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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🧵
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🥳 so happy for you, temi!!!!!
This is exciting!!!
Best in superstar!
My pleasure! 🤗
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!
We did. It's so cold!!!! 😭
Just imagine the two most gorgeous African women mother-daughter duo you ever imagined!
Paper title reads: Tech Saviorism and Digital Colonialism: An African Feminist Decolonial Approach to Reframing Digital Futures
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
Yes! I was thinking about this some time ago, about activists writing themselves into the archives & leaving forever trace transcending their physical/digital organizing footprints. And that eloquent document clarified & defined their politics in a way that they can never be misread! Incredible!
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✨
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The image is a screenshot from the publication website showing the essay categorization, “THE MINISTRY OF IDEAS”, the title of the essay, “AN AFRICAN FEMINIST MANIFESTO”, and a short extract that reads: “Decolonial African feminist thought is equal parts rage and radical care. It is a collaborative and unbiased call to action that insists on justice, self-determination, and autonomy, building on the legacies of foremothers to create our lifelines for our future and the ones that come after us.”
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...
In “An African feminist Manifesto”, I write on decolonial African feminist thought, the intersection of gender oppression & digital colonialism, and why AfriFems must push back against the war on “decolonization”. 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!
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I am quite literally offering to ungate by sending you a copy.
With a particular emphasis on how the virtual backstabbing of anti-feminist clusters online mirror/ justify/reinforce the Nigerian state's punishment, active surveillance, internet shutdowns, passport seizures, and abuse of power towards Nigeria's feminist political subjects.
I developed a central concept of virtual backstabbing: malicious & clustered digital activities to spread disinformation, severe digital relationships, exploit affects, & advance specific socio-political agendas, with serious digital & offline consequences for those targeted by them.
How do we use digital tools to answer humanities questions on the digital that would otherwise be too "cumbersome...without
computational assistance"? (S.
Jackson et al).
I show how we might engage a contextual feminist/computational approach to policom on Nigerian Twitter
How do intentional practices of misogyny elevate Nigerian antifeminist influencers to a prominence that shapes the perception of feminist political subjects?
What is the implication for feminist political communication nested in antifeminist geo-contexts?
Isn’t it disingenuous to insult without engaging the content/context of the article? I'm sited in the academy, & despite my utter dislike for paywalls, this is the way (at least for now). I can dm a copy to you if you wish, so you can see I am not making any claims without solid & concrete evidence
I explore digital intimacies in Nigerian networked political discourse, focusing on the unpredictable affects transforming feminist political subjects into bodies of hate/value based on the demands of time & context.
New article out!!! Please DM for a copy if you wish to engage:
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Ololade Faniyi's thesis, "A Herstory of #Endsars: Nuances of Intersectionality in Nigeria’s Movement against Police Brutality," was directed and nominated by Dr. Radhika Gajjala, with Dr. Nicole Jackson as committee member.
Dean Waldron of the BGSU Graduate College wrote in her letter, "On behalf of our selection committee, I am delighted to report to you that you have been selected as the recipient of the Graduate College’s Distinguished Thesis Award for 2024. The Committee found your thesis, “A Herstory of #Endsars: Nuances of Intersectionality in Nigeria’s Movement against Police Brutality”, to be an outstanding and sophisticated example of scholarly research."
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
