Hello Team! I am excited to say that my short film, You Just Watch & See is having its Chicago premiere in November via two film festivals! Please join me Saturday November 1st (2pm CST) at the Greenline Performing Arts Center for the Chicago Film Symposium and again November 9th (6pm) and 12th (8pm) for…
Category: Publication
An Essay for Donny
Excited to have this piece in the 3rd issue of Afropiq!
#MisogynoirTransformed Book Tour
Did I mention I wrote a book? An important grad school hack that I learned after grad school is that you can and should listen to authors talk about their books via book talks! I’m still angling for a Misogynoir Transformed C-SPAN appearance but in the interim, please enjoy this conversation I had with Lee…
A radical reckoning: a Black woman’s racial revenge in Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”
So geeked for this piece to have found a home at Feminist Media Studies! Special thanks to Erica Edwards for the invitation to Rutgers that really set this piece in motion! An excerpt below… “Black Museum,” the final installment of season four of the original series Black Mirror, incorporates many of the episodes that have come…
#HashtagActivism is out…everywhere!
I really can’t express my delight in my first (co-authored) book, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, being out in the world! My amazing co-authors Sarah J. Jackson and Brooke Foucault Welles and I had a wonderful crowd at The Strand Bookstore in New York City, the first stop on our book tour. Folks…
Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework
It’s here! It’s finally here! This article took years but I think it was worth the wait! A Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. Our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and…
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…
The Flexner Report: Standardizing Medical Students Through Region-, Gender-, and Race-Based Hierarchies
I’m proud to have an article in this special issue of the American Journal of Law & Medicine. It is a treat to be published alongside scholars I really admire like Ruha Benjamin, Khiara M. Bridges, Terence Keel, Osagie K. Obasogie, Patricia J. Williams, Lundy Braun, and more! Here’s a taste: In 1910, Abraham Flexner, a leading U.S. educational…
Palimpsests in the Life and Work of Octavia E. Butler: A Palimpsest Special Issue
It’s here! Just in time for the holidays! Ayana Jamieson and I labored for two years to get this special issue out and we are so glad that it is finally here! Please enjoy! Award winning author Octavia E. Butler crafted a life as unique as any of her stories. Regarded as the grand dame…
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,…