@abeba.bsky.social @sjjphd.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social

I think you would love this interview with the creator of “neno” as she reimagines the raw ingredients of digital progress through a story-first and community-owned platform with Black feminist and queer voices at the center.

Feminist movements have repeatedly created "figures of trouble" across history whose exclusion becomes seen as necessary to legitimize the movement. While the patriarchy launches "saving" women projects — dehumanization disguised as solidarity that reinforces the very structures oppressing us all.

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With @omolaniyan.bsky.social’s “eternally displaceable strategic essentialism," I unpack how African queer communities navigate Western & indigenous frameworks to create meaning within constraints, and how we might move beyond both the false promise of elsewhere.
republic.com.ng/february-mar...

I explore how this digital migration connects to "queer exportation" - where African nations tacitly encourage LGBTQ+ people to seek freedom abroad, creating a spiral where the myth of Western exceptionalism depends on the necropolitics of queer lives elsewhere.
republic.com.ng/february-mar...

🥳 so happy for you, temi!!!!!
This is exciting!!!

Best in superstar!

My pleasure! 🤗

We did. It's so cold!!!! 😭

Yes! I was thinking about this some time ago, about activists writing themselves into the archives & leaving forever trace transcending their physical/digital organizing footprints. And that eloquent document clarified & defined their politics in a way that they can never be misread! Incredible!

In “An African feminist Manifesto”, I write on decolonial African feminist thought, the intersection of gender oppression & digital colonialism, and why AfriFems must push back against the war on “decolonization”. republic.com.ng/february-mar...

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I am quite literally offering to ungate by sending you a copy.

With a particular emphasis on how the virtual backstabbing of anti-feminist clusters online mirror/ justify/reinforce the Nigerian state's punishment, active surveillance, internet shutdowns, passport seizures, and abuse of power towards Nigeria's feminist political subjects.

I developed a central concept of virtual backstabbing: malicious & clustered digital activities to spread disinformation, severe digital relationships, exploit affects, & advance specific socio-political agendas, with serious digital & offline consequences for those targeted by them.