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@naomilasmith
A librarian who left the profession due to racism —now a global DEI Consultant. Founder of blackandgoldeducation.org | die4artbynaomi.com Content Creator | Workshop Facilitator | Public Speaker Let’s work together🧚🏽♂️ ✨ https://linktr.ee/naomilasmith
What started as a free idea that was rejected by two academic conferences turned into a webinar that generated close to four figures in revenue, with many attendees choosing to pay a premium ticket price! This is a reminder one persons trash is another persons treasure…
How complicit are we are in our own suffering?
How complicit are we in wider collective suffering?
How often do we look within and ask ourselves if there is any part of us that needs to change in order to see a difference in our personal and collective lives?
Academics should be dominating social media !
Academia won’t save us.
Join me next week to learn how to create critical pedagogical content online that will connect with students inside and outside of universities as well as build a personal platform, & create financial resilience if circumstances change.
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Feedback from my latest YouTube video. I’m hosting a webinar for academics, educators, and knowledge workers on how to use social media intentionally and ethically for public education, collective impact, and real change.
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Thank you !
Upcoming webinar from @naomilasmith.bsky.social aimed at academics: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
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We need new tools, new imaginative and new willingness to take responsibility within our own spheres of influences not more conferences and articles & builfiny #digitalskills that support dditional income streams during a time of job precarity in HE!
@nedpotter.bsky.social would love to invite you this !
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!!! #genz #genalpha #socialmedia #academics
DON’T MY HAIR IN THE LIBRARY! EXPOSING HAIR MICROGRESSIONS IN #uklibraries #academiclibraries
#blacklibrarians #libraryracism #mysogynoire
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Temporary road signs set up by the Met saying at yesterday’s march THREATENING OR ABUSIVE CHANTS MAY LEAD TO ARREST IT’S AN OFFENCE TO SUPPORT A PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION
The U.K. is a police state
The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000
Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.
This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.
“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.
#Gaza
I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.
If you’re open to supporting this effort, feel free to email me at info@die4artbynaomi.
Thank you so much,
Naomi
If you’re weeding any books this summer especially titles on self-development, resilience, and creativity I’d love the opportunity to repurpose them for this new project. Even small donations of 1 or 2 books would mean a lot.
I’ve recently been blessed with a grant and am now in the early stages of creating a small community library and running workshops for people who’ve never truly felt welcomed in traditional literary spaces. My goal is to build something different—open, empowering, and radically inclusive.
I’m now an author! Yesterday I released an ebook called 1234 Open This Door! Unlocking New Knowledge, Power & Creative Freedom. It is a 67-page guide, designed to help you break free from limiting beliefs and reconnect with the truth of who you really are www.die4artbynaomi.com/shop
'Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as a Colonial Project' by @gabriellapreyes.bsky.social. How classification systems uphold colonial knowledge structures & contribute to epistemicideas as they disregard indigenous knowledges. journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #DeweyDecimal #LCSH #Libraries
Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.
Today, I had the honor of virtually speaking in Texas on “The Power of Designing the Unseen: Indigenous Wisdom in Action. It was important for me to communicate #hope to design students currently living under the Trump administration many of whom are facing the threat of mass deportation.
polite reminder : If your commitment to equity doesn’t extend to all oppressed people, then it’s just performative—no better than the ‘allies’ you critique #DEI
I would rather 50 people who support me regularly, buy my products etc then 10 000 who don’t give a damn about me and wouldn’t notice if I deactivated my account lol
That’s a great analogy ! And yes in regards to follower account I agree. A lot of people just focus on increasing their followers versus an engaged community no matter the size !!
And if Instagram sees your post is working well with your existing followers that’s when it will push it out to non followers … sorry for the spam but social media is also one of my expertise now that im a full time content creator / work with creators on their social media presence :)
I would also say that single posts are poor for engagement even with followers. Instagram awards attention as that is its currency . Single posts = 1 second of attention. I tell my clients you will grow with carousels even if it’s just growing engagement with existing followers
Adding music to carrousels puts them in the reel algorithm and amps up engagement and consequently conversion - most people think there is only one algorithm on Instagram. There are 3 - one for stories, posts and reels