Student Submission – Final Project VCU FA24 Silenced Screens In the glow of screens where voices rise, Lies a shadowed truth, a web of lies. Where Blackness blooms with radiant grace, And womanhood carves its sacred space. But here, the storm begins to brew, An endless torrent, cruel and untrue. Trolls sharpen words into jagged spears, Algorithms blind to her hopes and tears. Memes like masks, they laugh, they jeer, Turning joy to whispers laced with fear. Microaggressions slip through the seams, Invisible threads unravel her dreams. The hashtags pile, a digital pyre, Fueling the flames of unholy fire. Her name, her story, her every thought, Reduced to rubble, discarded,…

Student Submission – Final Project VCU FA24 In this project, I seem to have learned how deep and widespread misogynoir is in digital platforms. Misogynoir, which has been coined by scholar Moya Bailey, is a term derived from racism of Black women. At first, I treated misogynoir as a phenomenon where Black women are discriminated against. When I was trying to know more about it, I did not know how it affects black women mentally, emotionally and on a personal level and how even some black men perpetrate this. Through participating in this project I learnt how social media, a network that links people together and a platform for the…

Sanaa Banks – Final Project VCU FA24

Student submission – Final Project VCU FA24

Naomi Cordova – Final Project VCU FA24 As an artist, I wanted to use this medium to powerfully illustrate the deep-rooted and multifaceted nature of misogynoir that I and so many other Black women face, both in digital spaces and in society at large. Constructing the conceptual structure map was crucial in highlighting the complex web of issues that contribute to and perpetuate misogynoir – from online harassment and hate speech to systemic biases and oppressive ideologies. Seeing those terms like “racism,” “sexism,” “feminism,” and “queer theory” clustered together underscores how these forms of marginalization intersect and amplify one another, creating a suffocating reality for us. Incorporating the image of…

Roux Slutsky – Final Project VCU FA24 IG: https://www.instagram.com/dontberouxd/

Student submission – Final Project VCU FA24 For my project, I explored the connection between racism and sexism that Black women face, called misogynoir. This form of oppression, which mixes anti-Black racism and misogyny, is especially common in the digital age, where online spaces have made it even worse. Using a mix of analysis and creative digital media, I wanted to show the subtle and harmful ways misogynoir appears in these spaces, encouraging people to think critically about its impact in our digital world.

Student submission – Final Project FA24 “In the process of creating this project, I was able to synthesize the information we learned throughout the class by closely reading into several of the texts from throughout the semester. I re-read through several articles that we covered in class and picked out excerpts that stuck out to me. I kept in mind that these images would be used for the class website, and so I also wanted to pick excerpts that were easily digestible and could be understood by someone who hadn’t read much on misogynoir (specifically digital misogynoir) yet.“

Jaida Bowden – Current Event VCU FA24

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