THE DIGITAL MISOGYNOIR REPORT

Ending the dehumanising of Black women on social media

Notice how these current tropes mirror Spillers’ “confounded identities” (1987) and Collins’ “controlling images” (1990)

For those experiencing #OnlineAbuse – and that is a very many of you – Glitch has free resources available on our website. We're linking them here and we'd appreciate you helping us spread the word.

You are not alone. We will #EndOnlineAbuse , together.

In the meantime ...👇🏾

“Anybody with half the sense God gave a cold bowl of oatmeal could see that these weren’t feminist sentiments.”

Rest in power #ShafiqahHudson . Your take-no-prisoners, clear-eyed commitment to Black women's liveliness is an energy that lives on in the work of Glitch💛

In 2023 Glitch published the Digital Misogynoir report which provides an indepth breakdown about the horrible fact that Black women receive disproportionate amounts of online abuse across several social media forums. Something needs to be done.
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In 2015(!) I wrote about misogynoir, quoting Maya Goodfellow on the abuse Diane Abbot had been receiving at the time: “a black woman who challenges the status quo and won’t apologise for doing so will always be judged unfairly.”

Plus ça change…

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