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Bernadette "bird" Bowen

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Dr. Bernadette “bird” Bowen (any pronouns), or Dr. bird for short, is an award- and grant-winning published critical media ecologist (art, activism, academia), content creator, Media & Communication PhD, and an expert in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies. bird is their lifelong nickname. Capitalization conveys meaning, and more dominantly, power. bird is the (un)professional, mistake filled, raw previously quieted, unrealized autistic, and therefore, substance abusing versions of them they were taught to be ashamed of that they have since reintegrated and fully embody. Dr. is the title they earned anyway. It’s only appropriate they represent both together with pride. Alongside a handful of colleagues since 2019, Dr. bird has helped spearhead a critical feminist wave of media ecology that incorporates cultural studies, further exemplifying their personal critical media ecological framework within her dissertation project entitled "From the Boardroom to the Bedroom: Sexual Ecologies in the Algorithmic Age”. Their project was a critical feminist and media ecological analysis of biomimetic sextech device advertisements marketed to vulva-havers, that anticipated the “rise of lonely single men” and mass neuroqueer self-realizations happening platforms like on TikTok in the ongoing COVID-19 envirusment (environment + virus). Their two-part memoir series "Neuroqueer Self-Realizations in the Algorithmic Envirusment" continues this work and is available to buy from most major retailers. On January 19th, 2025, they updated and expanded their dissertation into their book We Are F**king Machines: Why We Are Like This and What We Can Do About It. In 2019, at their first Media Ecology Association conference, they were awarded the Top Convention Paper. Since then they have published over eighty published poems, and academic articles on algorithmic age phenomena on topics like Leftbook memes, digital and algorithmic evidence of love, the sexually violent U.S. ecology, and color-paved racisms. At the end of their PhD, they won the Urban Communication Foundation / Media Ecology Association student research grant to publish their paper “Car as extension of whiteness: Not everyone’s skin has been extended equally” in Explorations in Media Ecology (EME). Since finishing their PhD, Dr. bird gained followers consistently on TikTok (and increasingly on other platforms), and continues sharing their experiences, serving as a human-centric resource on applied critical media ecology for (especially, autistic and trans, victim and/or survivor, millennials / Gen Z) folks who continue struggling to exist in a colonial capitalist system, hellbent on sickening, disabling, and killing (especially the immunocompromised among) us for (mostly, sadistic) billionaire’s profit. Thus far, they’ve gone viral for making the best of millennial professor poverty, student loan debt, and documenting their experience of being fired for speaking out against Charlie Kirk and neo-nazi sympathizing. Now, they’ve also designed online courses to inspire change in a new way: helping you develop your liberatory voice.
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