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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thrilled for @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social and her Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, and honored to support this amazing work!

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Honored to receive the 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship @acls1919.bsky.social, and so grateful for the support in developing my project on African feminist/killjoy reimaginings of technology and the human. @laurenfklein.bsky.social 🙌🏾 www.acls.org/news/acls-aw...

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

As we address the “gravest crime” and ask for guarantee of non-repetition, my article challenges the “exceptional other” framing of African AI workers and adopts Ama Ata Aidoo’s killjoy ethos to refuse the comfort of technologies built on harm and invisibilization www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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. rpublc.com/june-july-20...

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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. republic.com.ng/february-mar...

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.”

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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🧵 republic.com.ng/february-mar...

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A Queer Dream of New and Unassimilable Things

As the rest of the world watches the exodus of American users from TikTok to RedNote, it reveals a telling paradox: Western claims to digital freedom depend on portraying contexts like Africa and Asia...

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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!

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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.

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

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

So excited to meet and listen to the authors of “Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech” tomorrow! #AIAINetwork

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

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 💖

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

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✨ imaginingamerica.org/pagefellows_20…

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

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...

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.”

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

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! republic.com.ng/june-july-20...

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Ololade Faniyi Has an Out-Of-Body Experience When Writing.

Ololade Faniyi’s First Draft

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

New article out!!! Please DM for a copy if you wish to engage: academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

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

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."

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

I didn't think how I can emphasize enough how much passport privilege makes academia worth doing. What do you mean I have to wait six months for visa approval while the conference is next month?! 🤧

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/01/2024

OpenAI this werk quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy, which seeks to dictate how powerful and immensely popular tools like ChatGPT can be used. theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai…

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OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”

The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

And a week later, this post is valid again. Rest gently Dr Antoinette Candia-Bailey. This academy did not deserve you. I hope you find peace and comfort in your heaven.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/01/2024

"the researchers suggest [ChatGPT] could improve by being specifically and selectively trained on accurate and trustworthy medical literature—not stuff on the Internet." So basically, the way to improve ChatGPT is to send it to medical school.

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Last year, in a WGSS pro sem, I commented the US Academy was littered with the corpses of Black women. Black women, made visible only to the extent that they do not speak or radically change the status quo. BW, archived on shelves to fulfill the PR quota of the Academy & tossed away without care.

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

I grew up in a household where the last day of the year was spent cleaning the house from top to bottom because you can't transfer dirt into a new year. Just before midnight, we’d gather in the living room and sing/dance till the clock struck 12, and then we’d scream “Happy New Year.”

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Hashtag Activism is a pivotal resource for my work on Nigerian feminist/queer hashtag activism in the context of #EndSARS. The incredibly nuanced synthesis of network analysis, feminist theorizing and an approach that recognized activists as legitimate coauthors of the discourses they created! 💯

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

A huge part of researching Nigerian feminist cultures is that my interlocutors and I end up becoming tightly-knit sisthren community. Met with a dear friend today. We called their mom and she had the sweetest affirming message for me and basically declared that her child & I are cousins now 😄

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Ololade Faniyi @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

On a much deserved holiday back home in Nigeria, but the anxiety radio in my head is questioning the fact that I'm living my best lounging life when I've got deadlines to meet! There's a constant tune of "Hey brain, why are we napping?" 😴📝 #HolidayDilemmas

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