In January of 2020, I made my first trending TikTok video, which garnered over 100k views in less than 24 hours. While I had only spent one month creating videos on the site, I had years of experience researching and studying video sharing platforms, algorithms, and recommendation systems from YouTube…

Like most internet users, I have a love/hate relationship with online comments. When I love comments, I believe that the comment section of online content has the power to build community ties through shared experience and engagement. But when I hate comments, I view comment sections as hot-beds of all…

Growing up, I constantly head the phrase “put an H in your back and Handle it”. In many ways, this ethos was a generational mantra, passed down from Black woman to Black woman as the methods and the means to success and accomplishing your goals. …

I love Black History Month, but living in the era of social media means that this month signals a rise in performative activism and solidarity with the Black community that usually disappears the moment we make it to March. Especially as we enter the era of How to be Anti-Racist…

Last week I had the opportunity to work on an article about the case of Lauren Smith Fields, focusing on the responses to her mysterious death by news and social media outlets. For those who don’t know, Lauren Smith-Fields was a 23 year old Black woman who was found dead…

How “men with microphones” have become menaces to society — According to Wrapped on Spotify, I exist amongst a niche group of listeners who consume over a thousand hours of podcasts a year. And, while I listen to many genres of podcasts from creators all around the world, very few of the podcasts I listen to are created by men…

Although I am not as old as I would like to be, the fact of the matter is that I am significantly older than many of the people I watch talk about feminism online. Especially when I watch young people talk about feminism, there is always a bit of seniority…

There have been many changes in our lives and communities since March 2020, a month which now marks the beginning of widespread concern about the COVID-19 pandemic. But, the memory that always sticks in my mind from that month were the closings. Specifically, the…

First, I want to preface this piece with the fact that when this title popped into my head, I was sitting on the bus, staring out of the window, and contemplating the meaning of life (as per usual). The title was quite clever, if I say so myself. A play…