Moya Bailey

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Moya Bailey is an African-American feminist scholar, writer, and activist. She is noted for coining the term misogynoir , which denotes what Bailey describes as the unique combination of misogyny and anti-black racism experienced by black women. [1] Bailey is an associate professor at Northwestern University. [2] [3]

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Bailey attended Spelman College for her undergraduate degree. She received her doctoral degree from Emory University in the department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. After working at Northeastern University as an assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, she joined the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern. [4]

She works with the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, [5] "an organization that supports and promotes the writer's legacy," [6] and is the co-founder of Quirky Black Girls, a collective for black women who do not fit cultural stereotypes. [7] [8] She also worked on the project #tooFEW. The hashtag "FEW" stands for "Feminists Engage Wikipedia". [9] The objective of this project was to have feminists engage Wikipedia pages, both adding and editing information regarding individuals, events and things regarding feminism (with a particular focus on Black feminism). [9] She received backlash and derogatory comments for taking part in this initiative. [10]

Misogynoir

Bailey originally coined the term misogynoir in 2008, but first used the term in a 2010 essay entitled "They aren't talking about me...". [11] It is a portmanteau of the word misogyny and noir, the French word for 'black'. [1] [6] Bailey coined the term to describe a unique type of discrimination experienced by black women, specifically the "anti-Black racist misogyny that black women experience, particularly in US visual and digital culture." [12] Since her initial creation of the term, she has elaborated further on the subject in a number of works, and the term has also been adopted by other scholars in fields such as gynecology, [13] rhetoric and communications, [14] and law. [15]

In a 2014 blog post she wrote:

I was looking for precise language to describe why Renisha McBride would be shot in the face, or why The Onion would think it's okay to talk about Quvenzhané the way they did, or the hypervisibilty of Black women on reality TV, the arrest of Shanesha Taylor, the incarceration of CeCe, Laverne and Lupita being left off the TIME list, the continued legal actions against Marissa Alexander, the twitter dragging of black women with hateful hashtags and supposedly funny Instagram images as well as how Black women are talked about in music. [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bailey, Moya (2021). Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance. New York University Press. p. 1. doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479803392.001.0001. ISBN   978-1-4798-6510-9. S2CID   250104226.
  2. ↑ Bristol, Keir (May 27, 2014). "On Moya Bailey, Misogynoir, and Why Both Are Important". The Visibility Project. Archived from the original on August 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ Tiffany (June 2012). "Queer, Black Geeks, Unite! Moya Bailey Leads Women of Color Digital Skill-Sharing Collective, Shawty Got Skillz". QWOC.org. Queer Women of Color Media Wire. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Moya Bailey". School of Communication, Northwestern University. n.d. Archived from the original on March 2, 2022.
  5. ↑ "About Us". Octaviabutlerlegacy.com. Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. Archived from the original on March 26, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Thompson, Martine (November 28, 2018). "'Misogynoir' Coiner Moya Bailey Is Eating Pasta and Channeling Her Inner Black Auntie". Bon Appétit. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  7. ↑ lex. "Quirky Black Girls". quirkyblackgirls.blogspot.ca.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Tiana U. (November 23, 2021). "Black Queer Lives: A Conversation with Moya Bailey and Laura Lovett - AAIHS". www.aaihs.org. Retrieved February 9, 2024.
  9. 1 2 Bailey, Moya (February 26, 2013). "#tooFEW Feminists Engage Wikipedia 3/15 11-3 EST". Moyabailey.com. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013.
  10. ↑ Bailey, Moya (March 9, 2013). "Patriarchy Proves the Point of #tooFEW". Moyabailey.com. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013.
  11. ↑ Marez, Curtis (2019). University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus. Oakland: University of California Press. Note 37, p. 214. ISBN   978-0-520-30457-4.
  12. ↑ Bailey, Moya (2021). "Introduction: What Is Misogynoir?". Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance. Vol. 18. NYU Press. p. 1.
  13. ↑ Tucker Edmonds, Brownsyne; Sharp, Sacha; Walker, Valencia P. (March 1, 2023). "Mitigating Misogynoir: Inclusive Professionalism as a Health Equity Strategy". Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. 66 (1): 14–21. doi:10.1097/GRF.0000000000000768. ISSN   1532-5520. PMID   36657044.
  14. ↑ Kwarteng, Joseph; Perfumi, Serena Coppolino; Farrell, Tracie; Third, Aisling; Fernandez, Miriam (November 9, 2022). "Misogynoir: challenges in detecting intersectional hate". Social Network Analysis and Mining. 12 (1): 166. doi:10.1007/s13278-022-00993-7. ISSN   1869-5469.
  15. ↑ Meisler, Hallie (December 20, 2022). ""A Terrible Storm": Megan Thee Stallion, Misogynoir, and Leaving Black Survivors Unprotected". National Women's Law Center. Retrieved February 9, 2024.
  16. ↑ "More on the origin of Misogynoir". Moyazb.tumblr.com. April 27, 2014 – via Tumblr.

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