
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication
Moya Bailey's 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.
Bailey is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and board president of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is the author of “Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance” (New York University Press, 2021). Bailey coined the term misogynoir which describes the unique anti-Black racist misogyny that Black women experience; it is the newest word entered into Merriam-Webster’s dictionary.
Read the official announcement of Bailey's award.