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Dr. Bernadette 🐦‍⬛ “bird” Bowen (She/they/Dr.) is an award- and grant-winning 🔏 published critical media ecologist (art, activism, academia), content creator, 🤓 Media & Communication PhD, & obtained their Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies certificate 🧾

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 on TikTok in the ongoing COVID-19 envirusment. 🫦💻🤖

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, they were awarded the SMC Harold & Elaine Fisher Award, awarded first and second place in the Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies Graduate Essay Contest two years in a row, and the 2019 Media Ecology Association Top Convention Paper. She has over eighty published poems, and academic publications on algorithmic age phenomena on topics like Leftbook memes, digital and algorithmic evidence of love, and the sexually violent U.S. ecology.

At the end of their PhD they won the Urban Communication Foundation / Media Ecology Association student research grant to publish Dr.’s 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 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 profit.

Although they were not able to benefit from R1 privileges like attending a more than 4 year long, fully-funded, PhD program with top-of-the-line resources, She has 8 academic publications to show for since 2019. Dr.’s work has never been motivated by publishing in alleged “top journals” or achieving an Ivy League status. Their motivation for doing research is to share information with the public in the most connected era in history. Thus far, they have been interviewed in the Detroit News, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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.

After scrapping their Deeply Neglected podcast miniseries called Dr. bird’s eye view (utilizing what Dr. calls the triple A [art, activism, academia] to reveal insights about the present-COVID-19 era envirusment), they began their newest podcast called What the F**k?.

They have also been a guest on Kylie’s “Rebel Girls” podcast as well as been interviewed by the creator of Memes That Can Save The World on their inaugural episode of “The Propaganda Factory”.

Their two-part memoir series “Neuroqueer Self-Realizations in the Algorithmic Envirusment” includes 1) I have been the bad guy & 2) On being “the bad guy”. Audiobooks of both volumes are now available on Spotify, 1 & 2 etc. eBook, paperback, and hardcover can be found on  Amazon / Kindle, Barnes & Noble, and many more retailers. 

Dr. makes copies of all of her published academic journal articles and most of their poetry on Academia.edu. You can find this profile in their link tree🔗🌳

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