“It’s been raining, for a while now…” It’s strange to have personal wins amidst grief and in a world on fire. Chicago, last chance of 2025 to watch my documentary, You Just Watch & See as part of the Chicago Short Film Festival @facetschicago on December 5, 2025 6pm CST Also if you are looking for a…
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Misogynoir in Medicine
On June 24, 1983, Byllye Avery welcomed busloads of Black women to the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta. She was in a state of disbelief. The women had traveled from Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania — even as far away as California — for a three-day event billed as the First National Conference on Black…
Provocations for the Journal Catalyst’s 5th Anniversary
I was invited to be on a panel with some really wonderful feminist STS colleagues to offer provocations in celebration of the 5th Anniversary of the journal, Catalyst. Here are my remarks, part poem, part prose, part pathos. Ma’Khia is such a beautiful name. I hate how I learned it. #SayHerName — moyazb (@moyazb) April…
The Imagination Desk Interview
Moya Bailey is a Black queer feminist scholar, writer, and activist. She is the co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice and has a new book, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, coming out May 2021. In this conversation, we talk about online communities of support and activism, racial inequalities in medicine, the healthcare system, artificial intelligence,…
Misogynoir and Kamala Harris
Even though Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris was the clear winner of last week’s presidential debate (the fly on Pence’s head notwithstanding), she was disparaged in right-leaning media for her physical appearance and comportment rather than the content of her responses. GOP pollster Frank Luntz claimed that undecided voters “did not find her authentic.”…
Crip Camp: #HashtagActivism
I was so fortunate to have been invited to participate in Crip Camp by the late Stacey Park Milbern. It was really important to me that my contribution pushed a conversation about disability and Blackness and I think I achieved that. I also got to meet and fan-girl over Alice Wong and her incredible book…
#OctaviaTried to Tell Us Webinar
I had the pleasure of speaking with Monica A. Coleman and Tananarive Due on the 6th episode of their Octavia Tried To Tell Us podcast Saturday. I was a guest to the show alongside one of my favorite Black feminist thinkers, Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin. We talked Parables, music, and masculinity. Take a listen and…
MLK Visiting Professor at MIT
I am so excited to finally announce that I will be spending the year at MIT as an Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar in the program of Women’s and Gender Studies. Check out my intro to the community with my answers to three timely questions. 1. What are you looking forward to at MIT?…