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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.

— Moya Bailey

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Hashtag activism is a tool that helps organizing what's already happening on the ground.

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)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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