Moya Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moya Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moya |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9018-6261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ask a Feminist: Online Abuse and US Politics, a Conversation with Moya Bailey, Nina Jankowicz, and Sarah Sobieraj
Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Jasmine Crockett. When women step into the political spotlight, they’re often met with a barrage of gendered and racialized attacks. And while there have always been hecklers, the evolution of information and communication technologies has changed the game. What does this landscape of identity-based abuse and harassment look like? What impact does it have in general? In…
"Black (W)holes" and the Propagation of New Possibilities
That relationship to Hammonds's text and its author shifts, and the changing nature of these connections marks important milestones in Bailey's academic and adult life. The essay waxes poetic about the substance of Hammonds's "Black (W)holes" as its meanings exceed its arguments: its very writing serves as a possibility model both in terms of the kind of scholarship Bailey imagined she could write and the kind of life she could live as one keen t…
My DH Present, Past, & Future
My Day of DH (Digital Humanities) 2020 included an hour long talk with a social media platform about diversity and inclusion on said platform. Following their initial inquiry, I raised concern around the language of inclusion, countering that inclusion implies bringing people into an already existing center. I asked if their BIPOC users really wanted to be included or if they wanted to be allowed to exist on the platform without being disproporti…
Friendship, Fellowship, Fury
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
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…
New tools, new house: Building a black feminist social (justice) media platform
Danielle “StrugglingToBeHeard” Cole is a Black nonbinary femme who was launched from the relative safety of their Tumblr famous social justice online community into infamy via a viral video reposted to the notoriously unjust, WorldStarHipHop gossip blog. In this excerpt from my book, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (NYU Press May 2021), I asked Cole about her vision for a social media platform built on Black feminist prin…
The Ethics of Pace
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…
HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
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, ac…
An ethics of pace in digital culture
As Elodie and 35,000 other Congolese children negotiate dangerous working conditions that impair their health, some Western consumers enjoy the fruits of their debilitating labor to fight for their own rights in the ableist infrastructure of the West. Americans and people around the world benefit from the cooling power of an aquifer in South Carolina, water that is in the ground traditionally stewarded by the Catawba, Pee Dee, Chicora, Edisto, Sa…
A radical reckoning: A Black woman’s racial revenge in Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”
“Black Museum,” the final installment of season four of the original series Black Mirror, incorporates many of the episodes that have come before it, creating an apotheosis episode that critiques the technophilia of the series. A Black woman administers justice and brings forth a rare, onscreen vision of a white man being held accountable for his racist violence. Told in three parts, with sci-fi elements that are reminiscent of the work of afrofu…
Emergent Counter-Memories in the Field of Octavia E. Butler Studies
Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework
A Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. Our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and to forward an intersectional framework that considers race, gender, and disability to address the gaps in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. By employing a Black feminist disability …
Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online . By Bailey Poland. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2016
Mapping Desire: Octavia E. Butler Studies as Palimpsest and Praxis
The Octavia E. Butler Studies Conference was held on June 23, 2017 at the Huntington Library, one day after what would have been Octavia E. Butler’s 70th birthday. Founded in 2011, The Octavia E. B
On misogynoir: Citation, Erasure, and Plagiarism
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, our writing not cited, or our words plagiarized by people who find the word compelling. It is not surp…
GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online
In this research, we 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, we argue that the digital labor of trans women, especially trans women of color, represents the vanguard of struggles over self-definition. We find that trans wom…
New Terms of Resistance: A Response to Zenzele Isoke
This article is interested in teasing out the process by which certain elements of hip hop are selected and others rejected. Here, new terms are surfaced to help broaden the current toolbox in order to resist gender oppression. Keywords: disidentificationhip hophomolatentmasculinitymisogynoirtransversal politicsZenzele Isoke
An Interview with Moya Bailey
An Interview with Moya Bailey Faedra Chatard Carpenter (bio) This interview was conducted by telephone on March 21, 2006, between Atlanta, Georgia and Laurel, Maryland. CARPENTER: I wanted to talk to you about the "Take Back the Music" event that started at Spelman and all the controversy surrounding Nelly. Let's start at the beginning. Nelly was supposed to come to Spelman and do a bone drive—could you lay that all out and talk about your experi…
On misogynoir: Citation, Erasure, and Plagiarism
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, our writing not cited, or our words plagiarized by people who find the word compelling. It is not surp…
Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework
A Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. Our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and to forward an intersectional framework that considers race, gender, and disability to address the gaps in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. By employing a Black feminist disability …
GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online
In this research, we 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, we argue that the digital labor of trans women, especially trans women of color, represents the vanguard of struggles over self-definition. We find that trans wom…
New Terms of Resistance: A Response to Zenzele Isoke
This article is interested in teasing out the process by which certain elements of hip hop are selected and others rejected. Here, new terms are surfaced to help broaden the current toolbox in order to resist gender oppression. Keywords: disidentificationhip hophomolatentmasculinitymisogynoirtransversal politicsZenzele Isoke
The Ethics of Pace
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…
New tools, new house: Building a black feminist social (justice) media platform
Danielle “StrugglingToBeHeard” Cole is a Black nonbinary femme who was launched from the relative safety of their Tumblr famous social justice online community into infamy via a viral video reposted to the notoriously unjust, WorldStarHipHop gossip blog. In this excerpt from my book, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (NYU Press May 2021), I asked Cole about her vision for a social media platform built on Black feminist prin…
An Interview with Moya Bailey
An Interview with Moya Bailey Faedra Chatard Carpenter (bio) This interview was conducted by telephone on March 21, 2006, between Atlanta, Georgia and Laurel, Maryland. CARPENTER: I wanted to talk to you about the "Take Back the Music" event that started at Spelman and all the controversy surrounding Nelly. Let's start at the beginning. Nelly was supposed to come to Spelman and do a bone drive—could you lay that all out and talk about your experi…
An ethics of pace in digital culture
As Elodie and 35,000 other Congolese children negotiate dangerous working conditions that impair their health, some Western consumers enjoy the fruits of their debilitating labor to fight for their own rights in the ableist infrastructure of the West. Americans and people around the world benefit from the cooling power of an aquifer in South Carolina, water that is in the ground traditionally stewarded by the Catawba, Pee Dee, Chicora, Edisto, Sa…
A radical reckoning: A Black woman’s racial revenge in Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”
“Black Museum,” the final installment of season four of the original series Black Mirror, incorporates many of the episodes that have come before it, creating an apotheosis episode that critiques the technophilia of the series. A Black woman administers justice and brings forth a rare, onscreen vision of a white man being held accountable for his racist violence. Told in three parts, with sci-fi elements that are reminiscent of the work of afrofu…
Mapping Desire: Octavia E. Butler Studies as Palimpsest and Praxis
The Octavia E. Butler Studies Conference was held on June 23, 2017 at the Huntington Library, one day after what would have been Octavia E. Butler’s 70th birthday. Founded in 2011, The Octavia E. B
An Interview with Moya Bailey
An Interview with Moya Bailey Faedra Chatard Carpenter (bio) This interview was conducted by telephone on March 21, 2006, between Atlanta, Georgia and Laurel, Maryland. CARPENTER: I wanted to talk to you about the "Take Back the Music" event that started at Spelman and all the controversy surrounding Nelly. Let's start at the beginning. Nelly was supposed to come to Spelman and do a bone drive—could you lay that all out and talk about your experi…
New Terms of Resistance: A Response to Zenzele Isoke
This article is interested in teasing out the process by which certain elements of hip hop are selected and others rejected. Here, new terms are surfaced to help broaden the current toolbox in order to resist gender oppression. Keywords: disidentificationhip hophomolatentmasculinitymisogynoirtransversal politicsZenzele Isoke
GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online
In this research, we 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, we argue that the digital labor of trans women, especially trans women of color, represents the vanguard of struggles over self-definition. We find that trans wom…
Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online . By Bailey Poland. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2016
Mapping Desire: Octavia E. Butler Studies as Palimpsest and Praxis
The Octavia E. Butler Studies Conference was held on June 23, 2017 at the Huntington Library, one day after what would have been Octavia E. Butler’s 70th birthday. Founded in 2011, The Octavia E. B
On misogynoir: Citation, Erasure, and Plagiarism
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, our writing not cited, or our words plagiarized by people who find the word compelling. It is not surp…
Emergent Counter-Memories in the Field of Octavia E. Butler Studies
Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework
A Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. Our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and to forward an intersectional framework that considers race, gender, and disability to address the gaps in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. By employing a Black feminist disability …
HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
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, ac…
An ethics of pace in digital culture
As Elodie and 35,000 other Congolese children negotiate dangerous working conditions that impair their health, some Western consumers enjoy the fruits of their debilitating labor to fight for their own rights in the ableist infrastructure of the West. Americans and people around the world benefit from the cooling power of an aquifer in South Carolina, water that is in the ground traditionally stewarded by the Catawba, Pee Dee, Chicora, Edisto, Sa…
A radical reckoning: A Black woman’s racial revenge in Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”
“Black Museum,” the final installment of season four of the original series Black Mirror, incorporates many of the episodes that have come before it, creating an apotheosis episode that critiques the technophilia of the series. A Black woman administers justice and brings forth a rare, onscreen vision of a white man being held accountable for his racist violence. Told in three parts, with sci-fi elements that are reminiscent of the work of afrofu…
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
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…
New tools, new house: Building a black feminist social (justice) media platform
Danielle “StrugglingToBeHeard” Cole is a Black nonbinary femme who was launched from the relative safety of their Tumblr famous social justice online community into infamy via a viral video reposted to the notoriously unjust, WorldStarHipHop gossip blog. In this excerpt from my book, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (NYU Press May 2021), I asked Cole about her vision for a social media platform built on Black feminist prin…
The Ethics of Pace
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…
My DH Present, Past, & Future
My Day of DH (Digital Humanities) 2020 included an hour long talk with a social media platform about diversity and inclusion on said platform. Following their initial inquiry, I raised concern around the language of inclusion, countering that inclusion implies bringing people into an already existing center. I asked if their BIPOC users really wanted to be included or if they wanted to be allowed to exist on the platform without being disproporti…
Friendship, Fellowship, Fury
"Black (W)holes" and the Propagation of New Possibilities
That relationship to Hammonds's text and its author shifts, and the changing nature of these connections marks important milestones in Bailey's academic and adult life. The essay waxes poetic about the substance of Hammonds's "Black (W)holes" as its meanings exceed its arguments: its very writing serves as a possibility model both in terms of the kind of scholarship Bailey imagined she could write and the kind of life she could live as one keen t…
Ask a Feminist: Online Abuse and US Politics, a Conversation with Moya Bailey, Nina Jankowicz, and Sarah Sobieraj
Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Jasmine Crockett. When women step into the political spotlight, they’re often met with a barrage of gendered and racialized attacks. And while there have always been hecklers, the evolution of information and communication technologies has changed the game. What does this landscape of identity-based abuse and harassment look like? What impact does it have in general? In…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works)