Documentary as Praxis: The Making of Misogynoir in Medicine

About the Talk

Moya Bailey, Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Media at Risk, will describe the choices she made in relation to both the content and production during the years she has been working on the project, including debuting a clip from the final cut.

About the Speaker

Moya Bailey is a professor at Northwestern University, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Media at Risk, the founder of the Digital Apothecary and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021).