Danielle Holland and Maryam Arshad are joined by Moya Bailey in week 3 of 3 of STPT summer replays. They dive into misogynoir, Black womens’ intersections with both medical racism and advancements, and the development of digital alchemy as tools for building the world we want. 

Moya Bailey is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. Bailey currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative in Digital Humanities. She is also the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. She is an MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT for the 2020–2021 academic year.