Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in the West African Civil Society Institute (WACSI)‘s Social Media Experts conference in Accra, Ghana. The conference brought together African social media experts, enthusiasts, and activists from across the continent, which got me thinking about ways we can strengthen "digital activism" across…
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Crowdfunding for Activists: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Online Fundraising Campaigns
I prepared this short presentation as part of the "Feminist Cyborgs: Actvism, Online Fundraising, and Security" webinar, hosted by African Feminist Forum and Association for Progressive Communications. My 10-minute presentation includes a brief introduction to crowdfunding and some popular crowdfunding tools. Using my Africans for African new media project as…
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I am An African Feminist Cyborg: Activism, Fundraising and Security Online
I am an African feminist cyborg! The feminist cyborg is at home both online and offline, and her activism is reflected in her online life (whether it is through blogs, tweets and general online presence) as well as in what she does offline (working for a feminist organization, working with…
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How to Increase Media Diversity: 3 Lessons from the London Feminist Film Festival
It's only been a few months since the LFFF's initial email to me, but judging from the film festival's program, the organizers efforts have really paid off. It's not every day I get to see I'm impressed with an organization's outreach efforts (and results). So, I'd like to take this…
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Making It In Media, Accidentally: One Queer African Writer’s Journey to Paradise
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…