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Uprooting Misogynoir in Our Everyday Lives

On Thursday, September 29, 2022, 9:00am – 12:00pm EDT the Centre is holding a workshop facilitated by Dr. Moya Bailey on the topic of “Uprooting Misogynoir in Our Everyday Lives.”  As a part of Humber's Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion Dialogue 2022-23 series, Humber Libraries will highlight additional readings related to the dialogues. 

Featured Books

Misogynoir transformed : Black women's digital resistance, by Moya Bailey. 2021. 

In Misogynoir Transformed, Bailey delves into her groundbreaking concept, highlighting Black women's digital resistance to anti-Black misogyny on YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other platforms. At a time when Black women are depicted as more ugly, deficient, hypersexual, and unhealthy than their non-Black counterparts, Bailey explores how Black women have bravely used social-media platforms to confront misogynoir in a number of courageous--and, most importantly, effective ways. 

The sisters are alright: Changing the broken narrative of Black women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris. 2021.

The second edition of this bestseller debunks vicious misconceptions rooted in long-standing racism and shows that Black women are still alright. The latest edition of this bestseller features new interviews with diverse Black women about marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more. The second edition also includes a new chapter on Black women and power that explores how persistent stereotypes challenge Black women's recent leadership and achievements in activism, community organizing, and politics. 

 

 

#HashtagActivism : Networks of race and gender justice by Sarah J. Jackson; Moya Bailey; Brooke Foucault Welles; Genie Lauren (Foreword by). 2020.

Activists have used a variety of hashtags, including #JusticeForTrayvon, #BlackLivesMatter, #YesAllWomen, and #MeToo to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people. 

 

America, Goddam: Violence, Black women, and the struggle for justice by Treva B. Lindsey, 2022.

America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities.

Mediating misogyny by Jacqueline Ryan Vickery (Editor); Tracy Everbach (Editor). 2018.

Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media. Framed and informed by feminist theory, the book offers empirical research and nuanced theoretical analysis about the gender-based harassment women experience both online and offline. The contributors of this volume provide information on the ways feminist activists are using digital tools to combat harassment, raise awareness, and organize for social and political change across the globe. Lastly, the book provides practical resources and tips to help students, educators, institutions, and researchers stop online harassment.

Featured Articles

On misogynoir: Citation, erasure, and plagiarism by Moya Bailey, 2018.   

• In this article, Moya Bailey and Trudy aka @thetrudz interview each other on the naming of misogynoir and the ramifications, and discuss how “despite coining the term in 2008 and writing about the term online since 2010, they experience, to varying degrees, their contributions being erased, their writing not cited, or their words plagiarized by people who find the word compelling" (p. 762). 

GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online by Moya Bailey and Sarah J Jackson, 2018. 

•  The authors “examine the advocacy and community building of transgender women on Twitter through methods of network and discourse analysis and the theory of networked counterpublics. By highlighting the network structure and discursive meaning making of the #GirlsLikeUs network, they argue that the digital labor of trans women, especially trans women of color, represents the vanguard of struggles over self-definition" (p. 1868).    

When margins become centered: Black queer women in front and outside of the classroom by Moya Bailey and Shannon J Miller, 2015. 

• “This article revisits the authors' experiences as Black queer women teaching undergraduates and receiving graduate education, ultimately reflecting on these from their current professorial positions. It explores how graduate teachers and junior faculty who are Black queer women navigate the process of creating and maintaining feminist pedagogy in the college classroom while simultaneously negotiating universities that have very little space for queer women, Black women, and those at these intersections" (p. 168).  

A qualitative study of Black college women’s experiences of misogynoir and anti-racism with high school educators. Seanna Leath et. al., 2021.

• "A growing body of literature highlights how teachers and administrators influence Black girls’ academic and social experiences in school. Yet, less of this work explores how Black undergraduate women understand their earlier school experiences, particularly in relation to whether teachers advocated for their educational success or participated in discriminatory practices that hindered their potential" (p. 1). 

About the Speaker:

Dr. Moya Bailey is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups' use of digital media to promote social justice and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021). 

Resources curated by Najeeb Ahmed, Humber Libraries.