Misogynoir

CTL-E-6363 · Practice · other · 2008–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07549 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6363.

Misogynoir is, in Merriam-Webster's definition, the 'hatred of, aversion to, or prejudice against Black women.' The word blends misogyny with noir, French for 'black,' and names a specific anti-Black misogyny in which race and gender are not separate harms added together but co-constitutive. The term was coined by queer Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey in 2008, while she was writing her dissertation at Emory University, and first used publicly in her 2010 Crunk Feminist Collective blog post; Merriam-Webster records 2010 as its first known use. Writer Trudy, in 'Explanation of Misogynoir' (Gradient Lair, April 28, 2014), elaborated the concept for a wide readership while herself crediting Bailey's coinage. The term has since become standard vocabulary in Black feminist scholarship and digital culture for naming harms directed specifically at Black women.

Notes

STAGING: temp id EB-19. TYPING FLAG: proposed type Topic is not in schema.json; typed Practice/other — for the classification sitting. BOTH dates are carried deliberately: coined 2008 (in dissertation) · first public use 2010 — records that collapse these misstate the term's history. CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): A word the culture needed, coined in a dissertation and carried by Black feminist digital practice into the dictionary — recovery (EB-10) working in reverse, forward.

Relationships

• Moya Bailey — related to
  Misogynoir was coined by Moya Bailey (2008; first public use 2010), per Merriam-Webster's coinage credit and Northwestern Magazine's account in Bailey's own words.

Referenced by

• Moya Bailey — related to → this record

Sources

• Merriam-Webster (accessed 2026-10-29): 'hatred of, aversion to, or prejudice against Black women'; blend of misogyny + French noir ('black'); coinage credited to Moya Bailey, used in a 2010 Crunk Feminist Collective posting; First Known Use: 2010. (primary source · build store)
• Dictionary.com (accessed 2026-10-29): 'the specific hatred, dislike, distrust, and prejudice directed toward Black women'; 'coined in 2008 by queer feminist scholar Moya Bailey.' WARNING: that entry as crawled contains an erroneous '(born 1947)' after Bailey's name — NO biographical data is imported from it. (primary source · build store)
• Northwestern News (2023; accessed 2026-10-29): corroborates the misogyny + noir blend, the 2010 Crunk Feminist Collective post, and the racism/sexism combination. (build store)
• Trudy, 'Explanation of Misogynoir,' Gradient Lair, 2014-04-28 (accessed 2026-10-29 via the Anarchist Library mirror; the original gradientlair.com is defunct): elaborated the concept and herself corrects that Bailey coined it. (build store)

More practice records

• Black Code Studies
• Black Digital Studies
• Black Hair Care
• Black language practice in Chicago (African American Language)
• Black police work in Chicago (Renault Robinson)
• Black Power Movement

Browse the full directory: all entity records

Record CTL-E-6363 · Combined Graph record U-07549 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · 4 sources · 2 mapped relationships.
Directory: all entity records · the knowledge graph

Researched and maintained by the CultureTechLens research program · CultureTechLens Combined Graph, Release 2026-11-04. Corrections are public: the corrections log.

Cite this record

Citation guidance for teachers, journalists, and funders: How to Cite Us.

From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.