Kiara

Research Editor | Pilates Instructor | Black Women's Beauty & Wellness

[Kiara @_kiaraleone]

🎓 On March 10th, I successfully defended my dissertation and am now Dr. Kiara Childs! Huge thanks to my committee and anyone who has offered support during this 6 year journey.

[hongjoong's eyepatch 𐚁 @csnitboy]

my last peaceful cowboy carter listen before the live versions completely ruin the studio ones

[Tuh'less 🏁🏁 @TLoveSpeaksss]

I'm proud to say that my research is published in Social Media + Society. For over a decade I've studied colorism, Black beauty influencers, & platform labor.

The great thing is that it is open access, so anyone can read it!

https://t.co/VKFoYboM2j

[Shanelle Genai✨ @shanellegenai]

Me, when it's late in the midnight hour and God really turns it around:

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Late in the midnight hour, God's gonna turn it around

[CCSN @WEARECCSN]

Jabari Miles Evans✨ @jenny_lee719 ✨Jenny Sundén ✨Kiara Childs ✨ @luciabainotti ✨ @MarieHermanova ✨ @moaerikssonkrut ✨ Nicole Bush ✨

[thot leedurr @DocDre]

When I tell you I am FLOORED:

“CODE SWITCH: DISTRIBUTING BLACKNESS, REPROGRAMMING INTERNET ART”

Schomburg Center Oct 15-Dec 19, 2024

“Drawing its title from André Brock’s groundbreaking text Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020), the exhibition explores the relationship between Black cultural production and the legacy of computation as a mode of machinic engagement and creative inspiration”

Shoutout to @zaritaylor_ and @LegacyRussell

[tems 𝖘z𝖓 @temsszn]

Y’all Tems got the famous @JHudShow Cheer ❤️‍🔥

#LoveMeJeJe #TheLeadingVibe 🕊️

[Zari Taylor @zaritaylor_]

New pub for @IJCS_journal with @wishcrys about #blackgirltiktok is now online and open access! If you’re interested in online niche communities, visibility on social media, or digital black feminism/black girlhood studies, this is the article for you.

https://t.co/DI0jjiA1me

[Zari Taylor @zaritaylor_]

@stein_krysten and I are putting together a panel for SCMS 2025 and looking for additional authors! More information is below ⤵️

[Data & Society @datasociety]

Job alert! We’re looking for a creative, collaborative senior designer to oversee Data & Society’s visual presence on our website, social media, and through all publications and communications products. Learn more and apply now! https://t.co/QwWXA6BLBr

[Love Island USA @loveislandusa]

Celebrating our winners Kordell and Serena ALL NIGHT BABY! 💖 #LoveIslandUSA

[Data & Society @datasociety]

📣New! In this report, Joan Mukogosi considers a question often overlooked amid the Black maternal health crisis: How might digital technologies meant to improve health outcomes for Black birthing people be producing new forms of harm? 1/4 https://t.co/ZvPGIBaZuy

[Zari Taylor @zaritaylor_]

super excited to go on this venture with @WEARECCSN can’t wait to see how we grow!!

[B’DAY 20th Anniversary Updates @B7Album]

Something about that loud ass eagle sound gets me going

[Boochie is the Name @stoppfeenin]

my fren when my rihanna hair comes unraveled

[BLACK AMERICAN PRINCESS @ScottieBeam]

Me at the theater for Inside Out 2

[Zari Taylor @zaritaylor_]

Looking like the cover of a magazine on diversity in higher education because the dissertation has been defended!!!

I’ll be taking my talents back home (finally) in the fall as a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University.

[Kiara @_kiaraleone]

@taycrenshaw You make me want to move!

[Data & Society @datasociety]

📣New! In "Doing the Work," D&S Researcher @livgar_ examines the changing realities for mental health professionals in the US as therapeutic labor is restructured by teletherapy services and digital platforms. 1/4 https://t.co/foJ3bG0dCF

[thot leedurr @DocDre]

congratulations to the newly minted DOCTOR @zaritaylor_