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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?

— Moya Bailey Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021)

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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.

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