Jumoke Abdullahi (she/her)
Jumoke is a Nigerian-born British force of nature and the co-founder of Our Living Archives and The Triple Cripples. These organisations and platforms exemplify her great passion for social justice and focus on the impact that the media, and wider systems, have on multiply marginalised people, especially those racialised as Black.
Jumoke is a writer and speaker with by-lines in and speaking appearances for Glamour, Black Ballad, WOW Foundation, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2022, she contributed a chapter to the academic book “Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism Critical Pedagogies Contextualised”.
Jumoke is working on the National Institute for Health and Care Research funded project ‘Unseen, unreported, unprotected: Disabled Black African/Caribbean and South Asian women’s experiences of domestic violence and abuse in England’. She is also a member of the Black Health Humanities Network as she is interested in issues related to racism in healthcare.
Given the focus of her work, Jumoke recently completed a Master’s in Race, Media, and Social Justice at the University of London, Goldsmiths. Her dissertation topic focuses on the impact of media representation on UK-based Black disabled women and how this impacts their sense of self and community. As a 2024 Emerge Fellow at the Paul K Longmore Institute of San Francisco State University, her research project explores the impact of media representation on US-based Black disabled women.
As a 2025 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, Jumoke plans to research Nigerian media portrayals of disability and disabled people and explore the lived experiences of disabled Nigerians. She hopes to further her studies and continue her research onto PhD level. She has a particular interest in exploring the topics of Nigerian traditional and digital media and Yoruba cosmological understanding and ideas pertaining to disability and disabled people.
Outside of academia, Jumoke has a wealth of experience contributing to advisory boards, including the V&A Museum, Media Trust and Brunel University. Her work has also been mentioned in Metro and Huffington Post newspapers and Vogue magazine. When not busy speaking, writing, studying and advising, Jumoke spends her time being a professional baby girl, a Yorubaddie, if you will.
Watch The Triple Cripples TEDx Talk.
Take a look at Our Living Archives
Issues: Arts and Culture, Health and Healing, Education