Ololade Faniyi

Ololade Faniyi is an African feminist activist-scholar and Ph.D. student in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Emory University. She adopts a feminist intersectional ‘small data’ and digital ethnographic approach to the study of Nigerian feminist/queer hashtag activism, African feminist digital cultures, political communication, and digital humanities.

Her graduate research reimagines African feminist thought in the digital age, focusing on digital pan-African feminist communing and networked solidarity at the intersection of reactionary/defensive politics, surveillance, platform governance, and AI-driven super-platformization. She is an African regional advisor for FRIDA, the young feminist fund.

Ololade is also a recipient of fellowships and grants, including the 2024-2025 Imagining America Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship, the 2023 Freedom on the Move Data Fellowship at Cornell University, and the Feminist Africa 21st Century Feminist Social Movements Collaborative Grant.

Website: ololadefaniyi.com/