Clappin' Back: A Look into Digital Misogynoir and Online Harm Reduction Practices
About the teach-in: The historical legacies of violence against Black women are long, and now these violences show up in digital spaces. Moya Bailey, a Black feminist scholar, coins this form of digital embodied violence as misogynoir.
In Moya Bailey’s book, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, misogynoir is defined as “the anti-black racist misogyny that black women experience, particularly in the US visual and digital culture.” (Jackson et al., 2020, 102) Misogynoir can be seen in the media, law, literature, and many other structures.
In this teach-in, we will explore what digital misogynoir is and look deeply at the ways in which Black nonbinary, agender, and gender-variant folks clap back through means of harm reduction and digital alchemy.
About the teach-in curator: KáLyn “Kay” Coghill (they/them) M.A., (@shetheybeyonce) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media, Art, and Text at Virginia Commonwealth University. Their research focuses on online gender-based violence and how Black women and non-binary femmes create means of harm reduction against misogynoir on social media websites.
Their work also includes investigating the experiences of Black girls and femmes on social media and how they create sites of joy on apps like Tiktok. They are the Digital Director of me too. International, an abortion doula, poet, and is the founder/co-facilitator of GLOW, a sister circle based at a high school in Richmond, Virginia.
Tuesday, December 5th at 6:30 PM EST