tèmítópé lasade-anderson is a Nigerian-British-Canadian writer and researcher. She is the Executive Director at Glitch. She’s currently completing her PhD on Black women’s digital intimacy in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. tèmítópé’s research interests are digital intimacies; Blackness, racialisation and gender on social media; diaspora; relationality; Black feminisms; and platform governance. She is a 2025 affiliate at DISCO Network, and was a Fellow at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies (2024). In 2023, she was the inaugural research curator-in-residence at FACT. tèmítópé’s 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, tèmí worked for various digital rights civil society organisations and as a digital strategist for global advertising agencies.
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 whose mission is 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, and a 2025 ‘Technoskepticism’ Affiliate at DISCO Network.
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).
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.
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.
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 explore and detail the myriad experiences Black women have online and with technology.
