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Video Essay
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Joviann Seepersad Black Women in Digital Spaces May, 2025 Through the process of creating a video essay on the effects of misogynoir in online spaces, I have gained a much deeper and more personal understanding of how systems of oppression operate digitally. While I had previously encountered the term “misogynoir,” this project required me to go beyond surface level definitions and examine the emotional, psychological, and social toll that Black women, especially dark-skinned, queer, or trans women endure while navigating the internet. Misogynoir is not just a matter of harmful words or rude comments. It is a structural problem coded into the algorithms,…
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Bias and Blueprint
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 India Haywood21 May 2025 This project transformed the way I understand misogynoir and how deeply it is embeddedin digital spaces. Before diving in, I knew misogynoir was a combination of racism and sexismtargeting Black women, but I hadn’t realized how constant and normalized it is online. As Iresearched, reflected, and created, I began to see how platforms, users, and algorithms all worktogether to reinforce anti-Black, anti-woman bias—often in ways that are subtle, accepted, oreven celebrated. I came into this project wanting to highlight these patterns but left with a much deeperemotional and intellectual understanding. Misogynoir online doesn’t just come from trolls or hategroups.…
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Current Event SPR2025 Essivi Collins
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/12/moj-apologises-woman-racism-prison-mother-baby-unit-new-hall In this article, there is a discussion about an unnamed woman who sued the Ministry of Justice after being imprisoned in a mother and baby unit called HMP New Hall near Wakefield. This occurred in England, and the woman detailed racist abuse and being targeted as well as her son due to race. The horrific treatment that the woman endured shows how globally black women in the most vulnerable of positions are treated significantly worse than their white counterparts due to race. This is ongoing and can only be confronted through exposure, which the woman did, stating that she was fighting for women such as herself and her son…
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Misogynoir in Digital Spaces, Final Reflection
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Throughout the creation of my project, I was drawn to images that resonated with my own experiences and feelings when thinking back to the themes discussed in this course. These moments of personal connection were not coincidental but rather illustrative of a larger, systemic issue: the persistent and insidious nature of misogynoir in digital spaces. Misogynoir captures the specific intersection of racism and misogyny that we, as Black women face. As we examined digital media through a feminist lens, I became increasingly aware of how deeply embedded these harmful narratives are across platforms What began as a project rooted in visual representation evolved…
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Reflective Essay: Confronting Digital Misogynoir Through Art
Student Submission Working on this project about digital misogynoir has been incredibly eye-opening andemotional for me. At the very beginning, I understood the term and had a vague understanding ofwhat it was. However, experiencing actual examples of the vitriol that Black women encounterlaunched me into a whole new understanding. The messages represented in my visual art wereharrowing—violently threatening messages, racist insults, and were visually difficult to see—butthey brought to light how truly insidious online abuse can be. It was important to me that theartwork did not downplay or conceal the shock of these words. The reason was that the truthmust be seen. It is not just mean messages. It is…
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Self-Reflection on Final Project Essivi Collins
Presentation Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 As a Black, multicultural woman who has lived a history of trauma and abuse, this course has represented an academic journey as well as an emotional and spiritual reckoning. I have experienced the reality of misogynoir throughout my life, far before I learned that it had been solidified into a term and theory. As a teenager, I was consistently sexualized and stereotyped in ways that robbed me of safety and dignity. I identified more with black culture, media, music and peer groups after arriving in NYC in early adolescence, and also began experimenting with alcohol and drugs. This led me down a…
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Current Event: Addressing Misogynoir in Mental Health Conversations
In the TikTok video by Dr. Judith Joseph, she explains the concept of misogynoir, which is a specific form of discrimination where racism and sexism intersect to harm Black women. She describes how Black women are often not seen as individuals, but instead are placed into stereotypes that deny them their unique identities. Dr. Joseph emphasizes that this leads to Black women being misunderstood, silenced, or unfairly judged in both personal and professional spaces. The video sheds light on how misogynoir is different from general sexism or racism—it uniquely affects Black women and creates barriers to how they are treated, respected, and heard. She calls for more awareness and action…
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Viral, Violent, Forgotten: Tracing Misogynoir Online
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Ever since reading about the final project when I first started this class, I’ve had many ideas that I wanted to explore. It was interesting to me that over the stretch of many classes, I slowly learned that I was indeed present during the time that Digital Misogynoir started becoming invasive alongside the growing presence of the Internet and online media, but wasn’t aware that it was a concept. Honestly, I didn’t even know it was a concept / term until I chose this class as an elective. I was in my preteens and teens around this early era of emergence, and always…
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Misogynoir Magazine
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025
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Final Project-Muted by Design
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 The portrayal of Black women in digital spaces reveals persistent and often overlooked patterns of bias. While the internet is often assumed to be an open platform for expression, it frequently reflects the same racial and gendered hierarchies found offline. Black women are not only underrepresented in positive narratives but are also disproportionately targeted by harassment, mischaracterized by stereotypes, and restricted by algorithmic systems. Their voices are often minimized or silenced through platform design choices that claim neutrality but reproduce structural inequality. One of the key challenges in exploring this issue was sourcing material that accurately reflected these experiences without reinforcing harmful tropes.…
