Black Women in Britain: Exploring Evolutions in the Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain

Black Women in Britain: Exploring Evolutions in the Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain

Thursday 30 April 2026, 4pm - 6pm

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The internet has fundamentally contoured life in the 21st century, from the rise of search engines like Google to the ubiquity of social media platforms. Black communities, and Black women in particular, have born witness to the ways in which the internet has reshaped connections between Black feminist activists, and expanded representations and expressions of Black womanhood. The late 2010s and early 2020s saw an expansion of research and activism interrogating the ever-evolving relationship between digital media, identity formation, and Black womanhood. However, events such as the transnational explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, the growing power of tech-fascism and AI, and the shuttering of important digital spaces like gal-dem make for an interesting time to re-examine the digital lives of Black women in Britain today. In the vein of abolitionist scholarship by Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Dr. Francesca Sobande's landmark book, The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain, join us in meditating on how Black women have navigated transformations in the digital landscape and resisted discrimination in online spaces, while leveraging the internet as a tool to advance Black feminist futures.

The details from the speakers, tèmítópé lasade-anderson and Karis Beaumont, are attached and below.

Title of Talk: “Who Gets To Be Seen? Image-making, Diaspora, Black Women and Resisting Erasure.”

Karis Beaumont: Karis Beaumont is a photographer, director & cultural storyteller working between London and Los Angeles.Led by intuition, her work explores themes of culture, beauty, diasporic memory through an emotive lens. Drawing from her Jamaican heritage & small-town upbringing, Beaumont’s imagery is rooted in presence and sensibility, and is instantly recognisable for its signature brown tones. Beaumont is the archivist & founder of Bumpkin Files, a digital archival initiative & journal focused on overlooked corners of Black British life. Bumpkin Files challenges the London-centric, and monolithic lens of Black British identity.

Title of Talk: On Being Seen: Theorising Blackness and Black Women’s Digital Intimacies

tèmítópé lasade-anderson: tèmítópé lasade-anderson is a Nigerian, British and Canadian writer, researcher, and Executive Director of the charity 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 was a 2025 affiliate at DISCO Network, and was a Fellow at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies in 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, tèmítópé worked for various digital rights civil society organisations and as a digital strategist for global advertising agencies.

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