Tag: misogynoir
On Kamala Harris, Misogynoir, and the Future of the Left
I feel like humans always resist. Humans find a way to imagine and move things a little bit. Always. And if we stop thinking about things happening in our lifetime, then I think that really opens up the possibilities. So, in spite of this, I am hopeful, because I do think that even in moments…
Misogynoir and Meghan Markle
My book will be out May 25! Please pick it up at your favorite independent bookstore or mine.
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.”…
Creator of term ‘misogynoir’ sees power in #HashtagActivism
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A U.S. academic who coined the term “misogynoir” for discrimination against black women said hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter are helping activists to use social media to mobilise and demand justice. Moya Bailey, co-author of a new book #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, coined “misogynoir” in 2008 after noticing…
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…
From Anita Hill to Christine Blasey Ford, what’s changed?
I was on Seattle’s NPR Station talking about what has and hasn’t changed since Anita Hill’s testimony 27 years ago. You can listen here.
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…