Favour Borokini
Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
- Hm, maybe this is one of those cultural variations, like white people using "soft launch" in a positive way, when in the spaces the term was created, it referred to hinting to male-centred acts of digital performance specifically, hinting to one's followers the existence of a man in one's life.
- To me, the term has almost always denoted a sort of twee, not really to be taken seriously, Barbie, meme type, vanilla feminist thing. It's giving "Girls want to have fun-damental human rights" and it failed because it was more about aesthetic than substance.
- Because on one hand, having female leaders doesn't make one feminist or mean they have feminist values. It just means they occupy visible positions of power as women. The power structures and social conditions there are still the same.
- There are maybe even more visibly powerful Conservative women than back then. Maybe the argument is that the term will be retrospectively redefined to only mean women with the right politics. Also why no boyboss? Just an odd, odd term
- Are lukumades puffpuff? Stay tuned
- This is me too wrt growing vaccine hesitancy in Nigeria and conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and depopulation
- All the world's Call of Duty or Death Note or wherever it is they're getting inspiration
- Oh my God. Ron Kenoly has passed away. Core Nigerian childhood icon laid to rest
- Sigh do I have to lug my laptop around today again? 😩
- Like reading a Gene Wolfe novel
- Right. West Africa. So Nigeria? 😩
- Is it so strange? People everywhere, including and excluding marginalised groups, are constantly performing acts of historical revisionism, constructive grand narratives about murky, less than stellar pasts. Wilfully redefining that which they desire in terms of qualities they possess.
- It's the very definition of cultural appropriation and it's everywhere. What seems most important to me, especially because it's not always a calculated/deliberately constructed thing, would be self awareness and honesty.
- "Yes in the past we used to do x. However we live in different times and to us, it is now inappropriate to do x." Not, "we never did x. People who say we did x are haters who are trying to perjure our reputations"
