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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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The London Feminist Film Festival Seeks Submissions from African Women Filmmakers

August 20, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

The very first London Feminist Film Festival, held between Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2012 at the Hackney Picturehouse, is seeking submissions from African feminists. The organizers are actively working to solicit submissions from filmmakers with diverse backgrounds, including the LGBTI Diaspora. I may actually submit something, given how visually…

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What Does an African Feminist Look Like? Ms. Magazine Features African Feminist Bloggers

July 14, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

The Femisphere is a blog series in the popular Ms. Magazine that highlights the many diverse corners of the feminist blogsphere. Their latest installment focuses on African feminism, and I'm honored to have been featured along with two other African feminists, Ms Afropolitan and Lesley Agams. But, given that we're…

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Lessons from my Mother: African Women and Feminism

March 9, 2012 - By Spectra Speaks

Growing up in Nigeria, the idea that improving the lives of women was a cause worth fighting for didn't just come from organizations, or brochures, or formal programming; I had strong women around me who constantly put this into practice in the every day, including my own mother.

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