Clappin' Back: A Look Into Digital Misogynoir and Online Harm Reduction Practices: A Reading List by Kay Coghill
Collage of Black feminist authors. Collage by Kay Coghill.
By Kay Coghill
A reading list by Kay Coghill from their teach-in on “Clappin’ Back”: A Look Into Digital Misogynoir and Online Harm Reduction Practices” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
On Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 at 6:30 PM EST, Digital Director of me too, International, KáLyn “Kay” Coghill led the teach-in “Clappin' Back: A Look into Digital Misogynoir and Online Harm Reduction Practices” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
About the teach-in: The historical legacies of violence against Black women are long, and now these violences show up in digital spaces. Moya Bailey, a Black feminist scholar, coins this form of digital embodied violence as misogynoir. In her book, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, misogynoir is defined as “the anti-black racist misogyny that black women experience, particularly in the US visual and digital culture.” (Jackson et al., 2020, 102) Misogynoir can be seen in the media, law, literature, and many other structures. In this teach-in, we will explore what digital misogynoir is and look deeply at the ways in which Black nonbinary, agender, and gender-variant folks clap back through means of harm reduction and digital alchemy.
Reading List
L-R: Janet Jackson, Anna Julia Cooper, Serena Williams, Lil’ Kim, Megan Thee Statllion, Venus and Serena Williams, Moya Bailey, Lil’ Kim. Collage by Doriana Diaz.
View the Reading List (PDF).
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice by Treva Lindsay
How to Stay Safe Online: A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship by Seyi Okiowo
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming by Kishonna Gray
The Digital Misogynoir Report by Glitch UK
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya V. Hartman
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book by Hortense J. Spillers
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Louder Than A Riot (NPR Podcast)
On misogynoir: citation, erasure, and plagiarism by Moya Bailey & Trudy
Black Girl Gone: Misogynoir, Hypervisibility, and Black Women by J. Morgan
Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse by Hillary Potter
Women in Hip-Hop Cannot Thrive While Misogynoir Exists by Taylor Crumpton
Why you need to know what 'misogynoir' means right now by Rebecca Ruiz
“Pick-Me” Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere by Danielle Procope Bell
A Seat at the Table: A Repetitive Narrative of Abuse by Kay Coghill and Adrian Krishnasamy
Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue by Carolyn West
Hoodrat Scholarship by Kay Coghill