“Frankly, many of these men could be better served if there were a licensed therapist among the Fab Five,” she said, referring to the nickname for hosts Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, and Tan France, who are food, design, lifestyle, grooming, and wardrobe coaches, respectively. Some of my thoughts on the …
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On misogynoir: citation, erasure, and plagiarism
This piece has been years in the making! So grateful for you @thetrudz! We, Moya Bailey and Trudy aka @thetrudz, had significant roles in the creation and proliferation of the term misogynoir. Misogynoir describes the anti-Black racist misogyny that Black women experience. Despite coining the term in 2008 and writing about the term online since…
I wrote a thing…
that’s pretty personal. I have, until recently, worked in disability studies as an accomplice, understanding myself as able-bodied and as someone who does not have physical impairments that impact my daily movement through the world. More here.
Towards a Black Feminist Health Science Studies by Moya Bailey and Whitney Peoples
Black feminist health science studies (BFHSS) is a product of Hamer’s clarion call to attend to Black peoples’ health and wellness as an integral part of social justice labor. As such, BFHSS critically intervenes in a number of intersecting arenas of scholarship and activism, including feminist health studies, contemporary medical curriculum reform conversations, disability studies,…
SWAG Diplomacy
I’ve always loved building things. When I was a kid I used to have Dream Builders, which were essentially Legos for girls that were pastel pink and purple. I loved to build structures and pull them apart. As I recall, the sets steered you towards building “girly” structures like nurseries, and “playgrounds too, a building…
An Interview with L’erin Asantewaa of SisterFire
As the video states, L and I go way back. Here we are talking about two of my favorite projects I co-create: Quirky Black Girls and the Crunk Feminist Collective! Oh and dig the Bobby B that opens up the video!
Media Make Change Interview!
I’ve been in the (e)news again! This time, it was a two part interview with Tara Conley of the fabulous Media Make Change Organization. You can check out parts 1 and 2 here. Here’s a little bit of what I had to say about the Digital Humanities: …I think that’s why Digital Humanities is a…
Queer, Black Geeks, Unite!
I got to do an awesome interview with long time community friend and newly minted QWOC Wire Writer Tiffany Y. Ates about my involvement with Shawty Got Skillz! Digital humanities dissident, Moya Bailey, has sculpted a yellow brick road in cyberspace for women of color. This summer she will travel to Detroit, along with her…
Thoughts on THATCamp CHNM!
I had the good fortune to attend THATCamp CHNM last week and it was awesome!!! After a day long English language nerd field trip, I arrived at THATCamp CHNM. The workshops offered were wonderful and I’m super confident about my Omeka and newly acquired Viewshare skills. I particularly enjoyed the mobile apps workshop which made something seemingly…
Relax, Relate, Release!
I take advice from my favorite 80’s/90’s TV show, A Different World. Whitley was having all these problems and her therapist told her to relax, relate, and release (2 Min mark). I’ve taken it to heart! Relax– I’ve been running on E because it’s the end of the semester and I don’t know how/if I can…