136. Misogynoir

The Allusionist

Helen Zaltzman

Arts, Education, Words, Linguistics, History, Entertainment, Helen Zaltzman, Etymology, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

“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.

Find Moya Bailey's work at moyabailey.com. Her new book is Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance.

There's more about this episode, and a transcript, at theallusionist.org/misogynoir.

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0:00.0	This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzmann, pull back the curtain to find languages
0:09.5	just some dude who Scarlett has in a hotel balloon.
0:13.1	Very excited that today's episode features someone who coined a word and that word is
0:21.3	a portmanteau.
0:22.3	A lot of you assume I hate portmanteau, I don't, I love them, which is why the bad ones hurt
0:27.8	so much.
0:29.1	This one is a very good portmanteau to describe something that is not good at all, on with the show.
0:43.4	Did it take you long to come up with the word?
0:45.0	It's a very neat portmanteau.
0:46.5	Oh, thank you.
0:48.3	It took me a little time to settle on it.
0:51.2	I tried like some other terms that just didn't feel right, so maybe in the course of like
0:58.4	a week or so, I was like, what about this?
1:02.2	No, this one feels right, yeah.
1:06.2	The word she coined is misogynnoir.
1:09.8	Hello, my name is Moya Bailey.
1:12.0	I am an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Africana Studies and Women's
1:18.2	Gender and Sexuality Studies.
1:21.2	So I coined the term misogynnoir in 2008 while I was writing my dissertation.
1:28.4	What brought you to inventing it?
1:31.0	Because obviously the concept was not new.
1:33.2	Right.
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