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Crowdfunding for Activists: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Online Fundraising Campaigns

December 3, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

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

December 2, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

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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Social Media for Social Change: 10 Tips from a Queer African Media Activist

October 6, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

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.…

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Making It In Media, Accidentally: One Queer African Writer’s Journey to Paradise

October 6, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

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…

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Africans for Africa: Press Coverage of GlobalGiving Social Media and Online Fundraising Workshop in Johannesburg

September 28, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

"Various charities in and around Johannesburg will add impetus to their fundraising drive if Spectra has anything to do with it." I just received a scanned image of an article that was printed in a local Johannesburg paper about my Social Media and Online Fundraising training for African NGOs, hosted…

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