Final Projects
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White Feminism, Solidarity, & Misogynoir
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 This project is an exploration of the pitfalls of allyship through online discourses, specifically the ways in which misogynoir hinders solidarity between non-Black people and Black women. The interactive collage consists of multimedia forms of content that have to do with the themes just mentioned. On the left-hand side of the collage are online discourses surrounding white feminism and white allyship, consisting of critiques by mostly Black women on white progressives. On the right-hand side are discourses around anti-Blackness within other communities of color. The general theme of these discourses seems to be that the failure to build and maintain solidarity with Black…
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Final Project – Controlling Images
Student Submissions – Final Project VCU SPR2025
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Final Project – Misogynoir vs. Colorism
Student submission – Final Project VCU SPR25 Final Reflection Paper Misogynoir, the extreme dislike and prejudice of Black Women, stems from the practice of misogyny and anti-Black racism they face, especially in social media. In class, we talked about the stereotypes Black women often face, as well as the bullying and violence that impact their mental health and physical well-being. For my final project, I decided to make a collage comparing the effects of misogynoir and colorism that Black Women used to face and still face today. Colorism is the main way harmful stereotypes shape misogynoiristic views and categorize women based on their backgrounds to essentially antagonize and compare…
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Silenced Screens
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,…
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Digital Art
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…
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Misogynoir in Female Sports
Sanaa Banks – Final Project VCU FA24
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Misogynoir and Cultural Appropiation: A Double Standard in Society
Student submission – Final Project VCU FA24
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Artwork
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…
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Misogynoir in Digital Spaces Zine
Roux Slutsky – Final Project VCU FA24 IG: https://www.instagram.com/dontberouxd/
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Pic Collage
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.
