Elisha Lim

Elisha Lim is an award-winning queer filmmaker and graphic novelist whose activist career is the subject of their PhD research into social media’s distortion of identity politics. Lim coined the concept “identity economics,” which has been published twice in Social Media + Society, and discussed in Documenta, Bitch Magazine, C Magazine and a 2020 TEDx talk. Their community-based art is documented by leading academics including Leslie Bow’s Racist Love (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2022) Eliza Steinbock’s “Vital Art: Transgender Portraiture as Visual Activism” (2018) and Tara Atluri’s Uncommitted Crimes (Inanna Books, 2018). Lim chose the iSchool to write about social media and identity politics to learn from leading scholars in the field like David Neiborg, T.L Cowan, Sarah Sharma and Tero Karppi.