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Misogynoir in Digital Spaces
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Moya Bailey explains that Misogynoir is not just the racism experienced by Black women, nor is it the misogyny they face. Rather, Misogynoir refers to the specific and intertwined racial and sexist violence directed at Black women due to their interconnected and overlapping oppression at the crossroads of racial and gender marginalization. In the scene from Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple (1995) exemplifies the concept of misogynoir, the specific intersection of racism and misogyny directed toward Black women. Celie, a dark-skinned, non-ambiguous Black woman, endures particularly harsh treatment at the hands of her abusive husband. The dinner table scene underscores the way he…
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Current event – Michelle Obama
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 The picture provided is one of Michelle Obama being depicted as an ape. A common insult rooted in pseudo-science pertaining to the black race. Academia was once impermeable for the black community, and it is still unfathomable for some to perceive black women as intellectuals, educated, and worthy. Black women are no longer just qualified to play the role of slaves or the mammy or the hypersexualized Jezebel. Still, when a black woman of class full wisdom and who is also the first lady of the United States of America has not played the perpetuated role of the stereotypical black woman… she must…
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Current Event: “smashed or passed”
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 In this TikTok, a young black woman discusses noticing a trend of “white girls [her] age getting engaged and [her] age group still standing in lines getting ‘smashed or passed’.” Another black woman stitches this discussing how a lot of black girls and women never have a ‘classic’ dating experience, i.e. a date planned for them, or a bouquet of roses given to them. She alludes that this is largely due to how society stereotypes black women. Additionally, she discussed how people use the stereotypical excuse “black women are hypersexual;” but if society shows black women that “selling sex is the only way…
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Final Project – Zine
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Reflective Essay Before starting this project, I knew that Black women face hate and unfair treatment online, but I didn’t fully understand how deep rooted this hatred is. Over the semester and while working on the final project, I learned that misogynoir is more common than I had thought. I was shocked at by the long history of it. Misogynoir describes the unique kind of racism and sexism that Black women face, especially on the internet. What stood out to me most was how everyday things online can be harmful, even if people don’t mean them to be. For example, when non-Black people…
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Final project – Misogynoir in the Media
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 For my final project, I created a collage that explores misogynoir is the unique form of oppression faced by Black women at the intersection of racism and sexism, particularly in online and media spaces. Through a combination of real-world images, social media posts, and advertisements, I aimed to highlight the harmful narratives and normalized violence that Black women endure in digital culture. Each piece in the collage represents a different facet of misogynoir, from the erasure and distortion of Black beauty to the mockery and dehumanization of Black femininity. This process allowed me to engage critically with the media we consume and reflect…
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Current Event – Dating a Black girl vs a White girl
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Uer9nx/ This video from themembers.co on TikTok which has playlist titled white or black women? and this is the only video in the playlist. The video features an interviewer asking black men about the differences between dating a Black girl and a white girl. One man responds saying that white women don’t cause problems, while another claims that white women listen, whereas Black women argue, nag, and even try to fight. Their comments reinforce harmful stereotypes that portray Black women as combative and difficult while framing white women as more submissive and accommodating. The language used in the video is a clear example of misogynoir, particularly…
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Final Project – Guess Who’s the Most Disrespected Person in America
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Digital Comic Strip – Guess Who’s the Most Disrespected Person in America by Lorie Lamont Final Reflection – Words are so powerful. I know this because I’ve gone from feeling voiceless when it came to expressing my experiences with misogynoir to being able to confidently identify misogynoiristic discourse and explain why it’s harmful. While this might seem natural to those who already have the vocabulary, I didn’t have access to those tools until I took this class. My final project, a digital comic strip inspired by the viral “This Is Fine” meme, represents the constant stress that comes with being a Black woman…
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Current Event – Shannon Sharpe V. A Black Twitter User
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 A former professional football player by the name of Shannon Sharpe, engaged in an argument with Twitter netizens regarding the WNBA ending in a misogynistic clap back to a woman who appears to be Black. The original input by the user @ungodlywests who is the Black woman that faced this unsuspecting backlash was a short comment of “oh i’m sure you don’t” (9/25/2024, Twitter) in response to Sharpe defending himself against OP (original poster) confronting his perspective of WNBA players. What @ungodlywests received in return was misogynoir in the form of an insult from Sharpe and a few other users online. The discussion…
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Current Event—Black Women Being The Laughing Stock
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Current Event – https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2XtmjKA/ In this week’s current event, a creator named Asia on TikTok gave her opinion on a recent incident where a reporter named Cordilia James (a Black woman) from the Wall Street Journal was covering the topic of the limited supply, high prices, and danger of consuming eggs. Within the video of Cordilia reporting, her wig was worn lower than usual, nearing her eyebrows. Social media did not hesitate to take this woman’s appearance and blast it throughout the algorithm. Most of the videos I’ve seen were with people laughing at how Cordilia wore her wigs and doing background research…
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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…
