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Bio

👨🏾‍🏫| Dr. Bright || Asst. Professor of Black Studies
💼| Black Herstorian/Historian || Author, 20+ pubs
🙅🏾‍♂️| Proudly Igbo || Unapologetically African
📚| Academic || 4 Degrees (History, Gender Studies)
🎙| Poet/Spoken Word Artist || Wordsmith
🤵🏾| Half-Human, Half-Amazing || Gent
🕴🏽| Suitaholic || Wine Connoisseur
👨🏾‍🍳| Kitchen dad || Dog dad
🌍| Globe Trotter || 31 countries
📍| OR || Portland State University

Gender/Feminist Historian: This is Herstory.

Helping fight women’s rights, GBV and inequality one drop of ink at a time.

Forthcoming:

"Boobs in Public, Bums in Parliament": My book of poems celebrating women's power and activism coming out, Fall 2021.

"Sir, We Have the Honour to Submit Our Humble Petition: Voices in Ink and the Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland": My book on a social history of Igboland coming out, Spring 2022.

"Did Europe Introduce Homophobia to Africa?" -- In Black Perspectives, August 2021.

Recent Publications:

Summary article (>>45,000 reads):
“‘Undressing for Redress’”: The Significance of Nigerian Women’s Naked Protests.” -- https://theconversation.com/undressing-for-redress-the-significance-of-nigerian-womens-naked-protests-144823

Award winning academic article: "Female Voices in Ink: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892-1960." -- https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2019.1684719

Summary Article (>>10,000 reads): "How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule." -- https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/how-igbo-women-used-petitions-to-influence-british-authorities-during-colonial-rule-143309

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