Check out these powerful films -- Taxi Sister, KungFu Grandma, The Witches of Gambaga, and Ladies' Turn -- exploring the lives of African women through narrative documentary. They're showing at the London Feminist Film Festival, which was set up as a response to the under-representation of women in the film…
Check out my review of Beautiful Sentence, a short documentary about women in prison as they experience the liberating effect of creative writing, in which I reflect on gender segregation in prison systems and its impact on transgender women. Beautiful Sentence screens at the first annual London Feminist Film Festival…
BET.com interviews me about my work as a media activist focusing on gender and LGBT issues in Africa. The piece, which was very positive and optimistic, prompted some thoughts about what "good" media activism means to me. Surprisingly "good" media has nothing to do with it. Read the interview, and…
I recently published a personal reflection of my accidental, non-linear career trajectory as a writer and a media activist. In addition to my philosophy about using media for change, I wanted to share a few tangible new media tips, tricks, and strategies that have been helpful to me as well.…
My career path in media hasn't been linear or conventional by any means. I went to MIT to study Mathematics, before realizing that I was really an artist. My parents are still in recovery. But everything will work out. It always does. Don't drive your career with someone else's rear…