Moya Bailey

CTL-E-6362 · Person · scholar · contemporary

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Combined Graph record U-07548 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6362.

Moya Bailey is a Professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University — her home school's listing; other Northwestern pages list her as Associate Professor, a conflict this record flags rather than resolves. She is founder of the Digital Apothecary lab and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective, and serves as 'digital alchemist' for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. A graduate of Emory University's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department, she coined 'misogynoir' in 2008 while writing her dissertation at Emory, first using it publicly in a 2010 Crunk Feminist Collective blog post. Her books include Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance (NYU Press, 2021), and, as co-author, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020). Her work examines how marginalized groups use digital media for social justice and how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine.

Notes

STAGING: temp id EB-18. RANK CONFLICT (in the description, not smoothed): School of Communication (home school) = Professor; GSS + MTS pages = Associate Professor. CORRECTION to the candidate brief: Bailey is at Northwestern University, NOT Northeastern (the 2021 NYU Press bio is outdated). Northwestern University IS live (CTL-E-0456, Organization/other), so the affiliation edge is emitted to it. CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): Bailey coined the word (EB-19) and built the lab — term and institution from the same scholar.

Relationships

• Misogynoir — related to
  Bailey coined 'misogynoir' in 2008 while writing her dissertation at Emory and first used it publicly in a 2010 Crunk Feminist Collective blog post — the person-side statement of the EB-19 → EB-18 edge.
• Northwestern University — affiliated with
  Bailey is on the faculty of Northwestern University (live record CTL-E-0456, Organization) — Professor per her home school, the School of Communication.

Referenced by

• Misogynoir — related to → this record

Sources

• Northwestern School of Communication faculty page (accessed 2026-10-29): lists Moya Bailey as Professor (her home school). NOTE: Northwestern's Gender & Sexuality Studies and MTS pages list her as Associate Professor — the rank conflict is flagged on this record; the home-school listing is followed. (primary source · build store)
• Northwestern GSS faculty page (accessed 2026-10-29): lists Bailey as Associate Professor; graduate of Emory University's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department; work focuses on marginalized groups' use of digital media for social justice and representation of race, gender, and sexuality in media and medicine. (primary source · build store)
• Northwestern Magazine (accessed 2026-10-29): Bailey coined 'misogynoir' in 2008 while writing her dissertation at Emory and first used it publicly in a 2010 Crunk Feminist Collective blog post (quotes are hers). Also: founder of the Digital Apothecary lab; co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective; 'digital alchemist' for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. (primary source · build store)
• SSRC Just Tech profile (accessed 2026-10-29): secondary corroboration of Bailey's Northwestern post and research profile. NOTE: the 2021 NYU Press author bio placing her at Northeastern University is OUTDATED — she is at Northwestern; explicit 'PhD' wording for Emory rests on Wikipedia in this pass, so the description says 'graduate of' Emory WGSS, where her dissertation was written. (build store)

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