tèmítópé lasade-anderson is a Nigerian-British-Canadian writer and researcher interested in digital intimacies; Blackness, racialisation and gender on social media; and Black feminist thought.
Currently, she is the Executive Director at the digital rights and tech policy charity Glitch. tèmítópé is also completing a PhD on Black women’s digital intimacy in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. In the time left over, she is workin on a book about the internet and intimacy. She is represented by Mariah Stovall of Trellis Literary.
tèmítópé was a DISCO Network (University of Maryland) 2025 Affiliate Fellow in 2025, and was a Research Fellow at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies (Germany) in 2024. In 2023, she was the inaugural research curator-in-residence at FACT Liverpool.
tèmítópé’s research and writing has been published by UCL Press, and in academic journals (Feminist Media Studies; Television and New Media, Journal of Global Black Thought), as well as independent media (DADDY Magazine; The Canary).
Previously, tèmítópé worked as a digital strategist for global advertising agencies.
A slightly longer bio
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. I was part of the 2025 ‘Technoskepticism’ Affiliate Fellow cohort at the Black, Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab, in the DISCO Network at the University of Maryland.
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), using the emerging notion of (post)digital intimacies in friendships.
In 2024, I completed a Research Fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany. In 2023, I was the inaugural research curator-in-residence at FACT Liverpool, working on ‘Black Futures’. 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 in 2022. I received my BA (Honours) in English Literature and Language (Queen’s University) in 2011.
Before I decided to return 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 and Social Media Specialist at Mozilla Foundation, and co-communications Lead at Whose Knowledge? I have also worked as a freelance for philanthrophic and membership organisation in the tech accountability space in the US and Europe.
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 — yes, “ad tech” and “surveillance capitalism.”
Altogether, my work seeks to explore and detail the myriad experiences Black women have (online, and with technology).
