Dr. Francesca Sobande
is a writer and reader in digital media studies at Cardiff University. Her work explores the intersections of race, gender, feminism, and popular culture. Her books include Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2024), The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, co-authored with Anamik Saha and Gavan Titley (Polity, 2024), and The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Dr. Sobande is co-author/co-dreamer with layla-roxanne hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022), the free graphic novel and animation Black Oot Here: Dreams O Us (2023). She is also co-editor with Akwugo Emejulu of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019). Her bylines include Disegno, Paste Magazine, and The Vinyl Factory.