Olabanke Oyinkansola Goriola is a Nigerian multidisciplinary artist-scholar and Doctoral Researcher in Performance Studies at Northwestern University, USA. Her work explores colorism, skin-bleaching practices, media representation, and Black women’s labor in Nigeria’s entertainment industry. She is the author of An African Feminist Reading of Wole Soyinka (The Republic, 2024) and The Colonial and Capitalistic Legacies of Nigeria’s Skin Bleaching Epidemic (The Republic, 2025), and co-author of “Monsters You Made”: Burna Boy, #EndSARS, and the Use of Restlessness (The Black Scholar, 2024). Through research, storytelling, and performance, she examines how societal pressures shape embodiment, self-representation, and resistance across African and diasporic contexts.