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  • She speaks to Zeba Blay, a writer who coined the hashtag #CarefreeBlackGirl, and Moya Bailey, the author who created the term misogynoir, a word that describes the negative way Black women are treated and represented in social and digital spaces.

    Why Does the Internet Hate Black Women? the Cut 2021

  • When high-profile women are lightning rods for misogyny and racism and their intersection in misogynoir, I think we would do well to pay attention to it, not as an issue that affects them personally but rather as an issue that affects all women who are in a similar demographic, and which will be visited on more vulnerable women in that category in disproportionately problematic ways.

    The Costs of Male Entitlement Condé Nast 2020

  • Misogynoir – anti-Black misogyny - forms the basis of this conservative scorn.

    Why are rightwingers so opposed to a Black woman supreme court nominee? | Thomas Zimmer Thomas Zimmer 2022

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  • erinmckean commented on the word misogynoir

    The distortion and devaluing of Black women’s gender identity is a curious feature of what Dr. Moya Bailey has termed “misogynoir,” which refers to the unique hatred of Black women and girls. Salon

    July 16, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the word misogynoir

    I get the miso and gyn. Kindly explain "oir".

    July 17, 2015

  • erinmckean commented on the word misogynoir

    It's miso-gy(n)-noir, noir as in black

    July 17, 2015

  • hugovk commented on the word misogynoir

    misogynoir, n.

    Model View Culture, 23 July 2015:

    Moreover, it states that “being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong.” Except it sometimes does mean they are wrong when that viewpoint is “women shouldn’t code” or that a black woman contributor shouldn’t be offended by misogynoir in the project’s Slack channel.

    September 3, 2015

  • MaryW commented on the word misogynoir

    We, Moya Bailey and Trudy aka @thetrudz, had significant roles in the creation and proliferation of the term misogynoir. Misogynoir describes the anti-Black racist misogyny that Black women experience. Despite coining the term in 2008 and writing about the term online since 2010, we experience to varying degrees, our contributions being erased, or writing not cited, or our words plagiarized by people who find the word compelling. . . . This is not to say that every time the word is used our names need to be mentioned, but it does matter that our intellectual interventions are understood in proper context.
    Moya Bailey, On Misogynoir: Citation, Erasure, and Plagiarism, Moya Bailey (blog) (March 13, 2018) (links to article in Feminist Media Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 762-68 (pub. online March 13, 2018)).

    August 16, 2018