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Northwestern School of Communication

Moya Bailey

(she/her)
Professor
2240 Campus Dr,
Evanston, IL 60208
Activism, Black Studies, Communications, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, History of Medicine, Media Studies, Queer Theory/Sexuality Studies

Department

Communication Studies

Area(s) of Expertise

Feminist theory, Queer theory, Social Activism and Impact, Social Media

Affiliated Center(s)

Digital Apothecary
Moya Bailey

Moya Bailey is a Professor at Northwestern University and is the founder of the Digital Apothecary, co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective, and the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021). She is an award winning documentarian after completing the short documentary You Just Watch & See (2025) featuring her late Cousin Dollie, and is completing a docuseries, Misogynoir in Medicine.