Chibundo Egwuatu
Chibundo Egwuatu
Systems Thinker, Organizer, World Builder
Education:
- In Progress PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MA in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- BA in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Central Florida
Publications:
- Yvette Butler, Chibundo Egwuatu, Matthew Canham, Ben D. Sawyer (2024). Sex Worker Human Digital Twins and Intellectual Property: On Collaborative Futures for Sex Thinkers, Technologists, and Lawyers. Porn Studies.
- Chibundo Egwuatu, Zahra Stardust, Mireille Miller-Young, Daisy Ducati, Sinnamon Love (2023). “Curating desire and manufacturing the white gaze: The white supremacist grammar of tagging on PornHub”. Sexual Racism and Social Justice: Reckoning with White Supremacy and Desire (edited volume). Oxford University Press.
- Chibundo Egwuatu, Ben D. Sawyer, Peter A. Hancock (2019). PERSPECTIVES: Digital Influences on Sexual Discourse in Disabled Populations. Critical Disability Discourses/Discours critiques dans le champ du handicap, 9.
Honors and Awards
- 2024 - 2025 Boreallis CTPF Grant
- 2023 - 2024 Red Umbrella Fund Grant
- 2023 Diverse City Fund Rapid Response Grant
- 2022 Diverse City Fund Fall 2022 Grant
- 2021 Diverse City Fund Fall 2021 Grant
- 2020 - 2021 Humanities Research Institute Reading Group, Sex Work Activism Reading Group
- 2020 Illinois Program For Research in the Humanities, Research Cluster Grant, Collaborator in "Problems in Decolonizing Academia" Cluster
- 2020 UIUC YMCA, Fred S. Bailey Fellowship for Community Leadership, Service, and Activism, Graduate Fellow
- 2020 UIUC Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Tinker Foundation Fellowship, Summer Fellow
- 2020 UIUC Center for Global Studies, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Award Recipient
- 2019 UIUC Department of Anthropology, Summer Research Assistance Award, Award Recipient
- 2019 UIUC LGBT Resource Center, Graduate Outstanding Innovation Award, Award Recipient
- 2016 - 2018 UIUC Graduate College Fellowship, Graduate Fellow
- 2016 UIUC Community of Scholars Spring Campus Visit Program, Award Recipient
- 2016 UIUC ASPIRE, Fall Early Application and Campus Visit Program, Award Recipient
Presentations
- Family Values: Understanding the Intersections of Polyamory and the Law. The 2025 Lavender Law Conference. The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association (2025)
- Gender/Sexuality Policing. Collective Liberation Seminar. Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2025)
- Intersections of Harm Reduction and Domestic Violence. NASTAD Webinar (2024)
- Centering the Margins: Expanding Rights for Criminalized LGBTQ+ Sex Workers. The 2024 Lavender Law Conference. The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association (2024)
- Sex Worker Health Session; Domestic Violence and Harm Reduction Session. Southern SSP Institute. (2024)
- Working with Child Welfare. DC Regional Academy on Family Violence. Children's National Hospital (2024)
- Beyond Oregon: The next era of all-drug decriminalization. International Drug Policy Reform Conference (2023)
- Evil Digital Twins in Influence Operations (Workshop). Misinformation Village. DEFCON (2023)
- Harm Reduction for HIV, Hepatitis, Overdose and Policy Overview. USCHA (US Conference on HIV/AIDS) (2023)
- Sex Workers are Anti-Trafficking Advocates. Freedom Network USA Conference (2023)
- Radical Nonjudgement in Survivor Advocacy: Harm Reduction in Practice. National Survivors Network (2023)
- Sex Work Decriminalization | Socialist Night School. Metro DC DSA (2023)
- Confronting the Drug War Session 7 (Drug Decriminalization Amidst Backlash). Substance Use x COVID-19 Data Collaborative. (2022)
- On Value Production + Collaborative Futures. Decoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures. The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (2021)
- Anthropology AS WORK: Interacademic Labor Solidarities, Roundtable. AAA Raising Our Voices (2020)
- Vigil. Third Annual HGMS Graduate Student Symposium, UIUC (2020)
- Let's Talk About Sex (and Work). 2020 black & latina womxn's summit, UIUC (2020)
- Statecraft: An Assemblage of Love. Graduate Symposium, UIUC (2019)
- Disruptions in the Archive: Sex Work Activism and Digital Methodologies. AES 2019: Ethnographic Futures (2019)
- Proheauxism as Black Liberation Practice: sex work activism and racial justice. Womens Resources Center UIUC: Lunch on Us Dish it Up series (2019)
- Relinquishing Utopia. Wakanda U | The Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology (2018)
- Considerations in Ethics: Citational Justice in Sex Work Research. CSAS/MIDSEM (2018)
- The Automation of Sex Aids for Disabled Populations. Human Factors & Applied Psychology Student Conference. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (2016)
ChibundoEgwuatu@gmail.com