Moya Bailey

About

Moya Bailey is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies 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). She was an MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT for the 2020–2021 academic year.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Gender studies
• Art
• Media studies
• Computer Science
• Criminology
• Law
• World Wide Web
• Literature

Selected publications

• #HashtagActivism

  The MIT Press eBooks · 2020 · 572 citations

  This “well-researched, nuanced” study of the rise of social media activism explores how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. (Ms.) The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags, including…

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• Misogynoir Transformed

  New York University Press eBooks · 2021 · 259 citations

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  Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir , she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural nerve and quickly entering into the lexicon. Misogynoir now has its own Wikipedia page and hashtag, and has been featured on Comedy Central’s The Daily S…

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• #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

  2020 · 250 citations

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• Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance

  2021-05-25 · 208 citations

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  Where racism and sexism meet-an understanding of anti-Black misogynyWhen Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural nerve and quickly entering into the lexicon. Misogynoir now has its own Wikipedia page and hashtag, and has been featured on Comedy Central's The Daily Sho…

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• The Ethics of Pace

  South Atlantic Quarterly · 2021-04-01 · 76 citations

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  Disability studies has continually asked us to rethink the demands on our bodies and time by reminding us that not all humans are able to move and produce in line with these ever-mounting societal expectations. Drawing on the work of disability theorists like Susan Wendell, this article addresses the unique challenges of creating an ethical pace of life for those multiply marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, and ability. The author focuses on her own occupation in the academy and in the fiel…

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Frequent coauthors

• Ayana Jamieson

  4 shared

• Brooke Foucault Welles

  Northeastern University

  4 shared

• Sarah J. Jackson

  4 shared

• Henry Jenkins

  3 shared

• Danielle Cole

  3 shared

• Alexis Lothian

  University of Maryland, College Park

  3 shared

• Izetta Autumn Mobley

  3 shared

• Nico Carpentier

  Charles University

  3 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

  Emory University

  2013

• B.A., Comparative Women's Studies

  Spelman College

  2005

Awards & honors

• MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT (2020–2021)
• co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender J…
• author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resi…

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