Bio

Aphiwe Mhlangulana is a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, where she is pursuing a PhD in Psychological Research within the Psychology department. Aphiwe is also a member of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa. She is also a research partner at the Feminist Internet Research Network with the University of Cape Town team. Her research interests include feminist digital activism, black women’s experiences of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and student activism and advocacy against gender-based violence. Aphiwe has experience working as a researcher and as a research facilitator in projects studying experiences of violence and trauma. Aphiwes’ PhD research is titled: Black African women journalists and bloggers’ experiences of technology-facilitated gender-based violence. The research looks at how technology-facilitated gender-based violence is used to silence black women journalists and bloggers who work around feminist issues.