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Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh
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Nissel's experience illustrates how co-founders—particularly women of color—can be written out of a platform's origin story and displaced from decision-making, even at culturally significant sites. For anyone building or running platforms, her account is a concrete reminder that attribution and governance structures matter from day one.
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Nissel co-founded Okayplayer with Questlove but reports that for 25 years she has had to explain why the only woman involved is not credited as a creator.
She states that a man she hired replaced her and that she does not know who currently owns the site she co-founded.
Nissel says she has learned how many women, mostly of color, have experienced similar erasure, though the article cuts off before she finishes the thought.
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