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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
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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
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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
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:
September 3, 2015
MaryW commented on the word misogynoir
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