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“It's hard to address something if you can't actually name what it is,” says Moya Bailey, who coined a term that enables people to discuss a specific combination of racism and sexism: misogynoir.
EXTRA MATERIALS:
Moya’s piece about Meghan Markle and misogynoir is one of the only worthwhile pieces of recent royal commentary IMO.
Alexandra Wilson: “I’m not a defendant. I am a barrister.”
Diane Abbott: “I fought racism and misogyny to become an MP. The fight is getting harder.”
“Flexner was right about historically Black medical schools’ and Black physicians’ key roles in American communities’ health. A century later, funding remains a struggle for historically Black institutions and for increasing numbers of US medical students”.
As of this year, the Flexner Award has been renamed.
“Most interracial commercials on TV are produced to provide white Americans with a sense of comfort that in the face of changing power structures and demographics they will still dominate the racial pecking order.”
Other portmanteau-related Allusionist episodes are Brunchtime and Podcast Podcast.
If you patreonise The Allusionist before the end of June, I will record the word or phrase of your choice (not slurs or branded content) and you can use it for phone alerts or as your alarm. Yesss? Head over to patreon.com/allusionist!
YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
exuviae
exuviae, plural noun, also treated as singular; zoology: the cast or sloughed skin of an animal, especially of an insect larva.
CREDITS:
Moya Bailey's new book is Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance. Find her work at moyabailey.com. She tweets @moyazb.
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. The original Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and hear more of his composition on the science podcast for kids Maddie’s Sound Explorers.
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