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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.
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Hashtag activism is a tool that helps organizing what's already happening on the ground.
If you can't replace the person being targeted with a woman of another race of someone of another gender, you know misogynoir is in play.
We must radically reconsider our insistence on "jobs with dignity" and begin to question the meaning and need for jobs themselves.
The Ethics of Pace (2021)
The academy is designed to distract us from doing the work of local movement building that would make a more ethical pace of life, a more equitable world, possible.
It's such a specific denigration of Black women, not other women of color, not Black men. So I started to think about that and landed on misogynoir as a way to talk about anti-Blackness and misogyny that that Black women experience simultaneously.
The stress and material consequences of system oppression make it nearly impossible to have physical, mental, and social well-being in a white supremacist patriarchal country.
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021)
Can a person achieve the WHO definition of health if they encounter racism, sexism, ableism, and other oppressions as a part of their daily life in the world?
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021)
The ethic of pace I want moving forward in my life and in my academic work is a slow and sustainable pace, one that moves at the speed of trust and is not driven by capitalistic imperatives.
The Ethics of Pace (2021)
When I think of my own research on misogynoir, for example, I am working to put myself out of a job. I don't want there to be a need for a word to describe the synergy of anti-Black racist misogyny.
I've always been interested in those of us at the margins. Writing about people who are not at the center of the story of history, though they should be, has been a part of my own organizing since I've been conscious of it.
I think because Kamala Harris is part of a party that at least publicly tries to present itself as a party that is concerned about people and society and community, she’s had to waffle because it’s really hard to make a compelling argument about wanting to or being concerned about human suffering when you’re funding and arming, making possible, a genocide—amongst multiple other atrocities.
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