Lectures, Speaking Engagements, and Workshop Facilitation

The University of Cape Town

  • Co-Convener and Facilitator of a four-day international student orientation with International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO), inclusive of topics such as culture shock, decoloniality and the student movements at UCT, and student engagement (2023)

  • Co-Convener for Queering Citizenship (Spring 2022)

  • Co-Convener for Racial Trauma and Justice and Queering Citizenship (Spring 2021)

  • Guest Lecturer on Critical Black Feminist Media Analysis

Columbia University

Guest Lecture on Anti-Extraction Methodologies in the Arts for the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)

The Being Programme (Cape Town)

Ongoing Workshop facilitation on topics like community building, friendship, leadership and exclusion with high school students, primarily at Herschel Girls High School

Our Data Bodies

  • RightsCon 2023 workshop on coloniality and data collection- 85 paricipants

  • Open Secrets 2022- community workshop on data collection and carceral tech

  • Internet Freedom Festival, 2019, Valencia, Spain

  • Digital Defense Playbook Launch, 2019, New School, New York

Workshop Facilitation

  • Facilitator of two day workshop focusing on online safety training from a queer feminist lens and building online, advocacy campaigns for the Triangle Project (2023)

University of Applied Arts (the Angewandte)

Artist talk with with Lisl Ponger on media methodologies and colonial memory practices

Zeitz MOCAA

Symposium speaker for the launch of Mary Evans’ monograph, Gilt.

University of Cape Town and University of Toronto : Global Commons and Hart House Lecture

Black Lives Matter: Global Activism One Year Later Keynote Lecture with Rebecca Wilcox

 

Norval Foundation

Artist Talk: Mixed Company Panel Discussion

Norval Foundation Curator Khanya Mashabela in conversation with artist Jody Brand and writer and scholar Kim M. Reynolds. The conversation takes place within the context of Mixed Company, a thematic group exhibition curated by Mashabela, which explores the act of gathering as envisioned by eleven modern and contemporary artists from southern Africa.

No Tech for Tyrants Campaign Launch

Panel conversation about the discriminatory nature of technology from the perspective of three Black tech workers that being myself (Our Data Bodies organiser), Mutale Nkonde (Founder and CEO of AI for the People), and Ezinne Nwankwo (Duke University, Black in AI board member). Organized by No Tech for Tyrants, Cambridge Tech and Society and Edinburgh Digital Rights Society.

The Creative Academy

As a guest lecturer, I designed and convened a three part lecture series (2021, 2022) on the Gendered Gaze, Defining Feminisms, and Re-Defining Feminisms, all three interrogating global power dynamics, imperialism, and the co-construction of race, gender, and the nation state.