Misogynoir Transformed is a pioneering work by Moya Bailey that offers a groundbreaking analysis of misogynoir and the transformative strategies for social change in contemporary digital society. Through careful analysis of media representations, web series, and social media platforms, Bailey reveals how Black women and Black nonbinary, agender, and gender-variant folks encounter and resist damaging narratives. Bailey also introduces the conceptual framework of digital alchemy to conceptualize the praxis that Black women employ to transform harmful everyday media into valuable social justice media, which functions to reduce the negative effects of misogynoir and create their own safe and inclusive community. This transformative activity highlights the dual effects of visibility—it is empowering but also precarious. Bailey’s work is evidence of how digital platforms have the positive power to reduce misogynoir and reshape the discourse on gender diversity and social justice.
Articles by Yiming Wang
Yiming Wang is a PhD candidate in the Arts, Media and Culture Program at Maastricht University. She is working on the project “Fandom and Participatory Censorship: Boys’ Love Fiction and Globalized Activities across the Great Firewall of China.” She has coauthored with Jia Tan “Participatory Censorship and Digital Queer Fandom: The Commercialization of Boys’ Love Culture in China” in the International Journal of Communication. She completed her MPhil degree in Gender Studies (affiliated with Cultural Studies) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include fan studies, queerness and feminism, popular culture, and censorship studies.