Playback: Clappin’ Back: A Look into Digital Misogynoir and Online Harm Reduction Practices

In December, I got the opportunity to conduct a teach-in on my research with Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics. For those who are new here, I study digital misogynoir. You can read more on that here.

Brief rundown of 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 her 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.

You can watch the replay on YouTube.