Moya Bailey
Moya Bailey is an African American feminist scholar, writer, and activist, notable for coining the term misogynoir, which describes a specific form of discrimination experienced by black women. Bailey is an associate professor at Northwestern University.

Career
Bailey attended Spelman College for her undergraduate degree. She received her doctoral degree from Emory University in the department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. After working at Northeastern University as an assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, she joined the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern.

She works with the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, "an organization that supports and promotes the writer's legacy," and is the co-founder of Quirky Black Girls, a collective for black women who do not fit cultural stereotypes. She also worked on the project #tooFEW. The hashtag "FEW" stands for "Feminists Engage Wikipedia". The objective of this project was to have feminists engage Wikipedia pages, both adding and editing information regarding individuals, events and things regarding feminism (with a particular focus on Black feminism). She received backlash and derogatory comments for taking part in this initiative.

Misogynoir
Bailey originally coined the term "misogynoir" in 2008, but first used the term in a 2010 essay entitled "They aren't talking about me ...". It is a portmanteau of the word "misogyny" and the French word for "black". The term describes the type of discrimination experienced by black women, specifically the "anti-black racist misogyny that black women experience".

In a 2014 blog post she wrote:
I was looking for precise language to describe why Renisha McBride would be shot in the face, or why The Onion would think it's okay to talk about Quvenzhané the way they did, or the hypervisibilty of Black women on reality TV, the arrest of Shanesha Taylor, the incarceration of CeCe, Laverne and Lupita being left off the TIME list, the continued legal actions against Marissa Alexander, the twitter dragging of black women with hateful hashtags and supposedly funny Instagram images as well as how Black women are talked about in music.

References

External links
Official website
An Interview with Moya Bailey from Callaloo

Living people
American women philosophers
African-American philosophers
American philosophers
Feminist philosophers
African-American studies scholars
Queer theorists
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American feminists
African-American women academics
African-American academics
Spelman College alumni
Emory University alumni