Hi, I’m temi

I wear a few hats: the first is as an AHRC/LAHP-funded PhD candidate at King’s College London, researching Black women’s digital intimacy. I’m also the Executive Director at Glitch, a charity that works to ensure that internet technologies in the information ecosystem do not replicate or further discrimination against Black women and other marginalised people. I am a Centre of Digital Policy member at University College Dublin and an Advisory Board member at FORSEE: Forging Successful AI Applications for European Economy and Society.

I follow an interpretivist, critical and transdisciplinary research philosophy. My PhD thesis uses a Black feminist framework to explore and investigate the experiences of Black women on the Internet(s). My research interests are digital intimacies and Blackness, race, gender and communication on social media, and diaspora and relationality.

In 2024, I completed a Fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS). In 2023, I was the inaugural research curator-in-residence at FACT. In the academic year 2022-2023, I was the Associate Editor at Networking Knowledge, the postgraduate journal of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA).

I have an MA (Distinction) in Digital Media and Society (Cardiff University), for which I won the Best MA Dissertation award (2022). I received my BA (Honours) in English Literature and Language (Queen’s University) in 2011.

Before returning to academia, I worked for various civil society organisations in the tech policy and digital rights sector. Roles I’ve held include Senior Campaigner at Digital Action, Interim Executive Director at Global Citizen Foundation, Social Media Specialist at Mozilla Foundation, and co-communications Lead at Whose Knowledge? I have also worked as a freelance consultant for organisations such as EDRi, and Luminate.

In a previous life, I worked for seven years in digital advertising and marketing at Group M and Grey Group agencies in the UK and Australia, where I specialised in digital strategy across paid and organic social media.

Altogether, my work seeks to reimagine and move towards equitable and joyful futures for Black folk.

Bio

temi lasade-anderson is a writer and researcher, and Executive Director at Glitch. She's completing her PhD on Black women's digital intimacy at Kings College London. Her research interests are digital intimacies and Blackness; race, gender and communication on social media; and diaspora and relationality. She was most recently a Fellow at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies (2024), and in 2023 was the inaugural research curator-in-residence at FACT. Her work has been published in academic journals (Feminist Media Studies; Television and New Media, Journal of Global Black Thought) and independent media (DADDY Magazine; The Canary). Previously, temi worked for various civil society organisations in tech and digital rights and as a digital advertising and marketing strategist for global advertising agencies.