Moya Z. Bailey
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The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
Background
Moya Bailey is a scholar of critical race, feminist, and disability studies. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality at Northeastern University. Bailey received her PhD from Emory University and her BA. from Spelman College.
Interests
Bailey’s work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative in digital humanities. She is also the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network.
News Items
3 Questions: Moya Bailey on the intersection of racism and sexism
MLK Visiting Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and scholar of critical race, feminist, and disability studies discusses misogynoir,...
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Honorees will engage in the life of the Institute through teaching, research, and other interactions with the MIT community.
Sample Work
Publication
Mysogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance
Mysogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, NYU Press, 2021.
Publication
#Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
#Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles. MIT Press, 2020.
Publication
Redefining Representation: Black Women’s Digital Media Production
“Redefining Representation: Black Women’s Digital Media Production,” Screen Bodies 1.1, February 2016.
Publication
#transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics
“#transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.2, 2015.