About the Talk
Moya Bailey discusses the process of creating a documentary from her scholarship and the shifts that occur when working collaboratively with a team of creators and interviewees who shape the project through their active participation. Bailey speaks specifically to one narrative thread in the documentary that emerged organically through an interview with her cousin, Dollie. We will watch the short film that resulted from this interview and consider all the ways that a project takes new directions given the interactions between collaborators and the time spent together.
About the Speaker
Moya Bailey is a professor at Northwestern University, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Media at Risk, the founder of the Digital Apothecary and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. 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).