The dusty man is not a new phenomenon. He has existed, in various forms, wherever systems of power have created men with enormous entitlement and small means. Dusties espouse the ideology of masculine authority without the character or resources to make that authority anything other than a weapon turned against the women he seeks to exploit. The dusty moves through…
Misogynoir
Misogynoir is a term coined by queer Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey. It refers to the specific hatred, dislike, distrust,and prejudice directed towards Black women. It’s a combination of misogyny (hatred of women) and racism, specifically anti-Black racism.
Misogynoir highlights the unique experiences of Black women who face discrimination based on both their race and gender.
The risk of femicide increases for Black women in America based on the concentration of structural racism where they reside.
Firearms kill Black women at rates no other weapon approaches. Nearly three out of four Black female femicide victims die by gunshot. That proportion has climbed 47% since 2011. Guns do not cause femicide. But they determine who survives it.
Black women are most often killed by someone they love, trust, or share a home with. Nine out of ten victims knew their killer.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the sharpest single-year escalation in Black femicide rates in two decades. Though rates declined slightly from their 2021 peak, they remain 25% higher than pre-pandemic levels–and the federal funding rollbacks of 2025 have removed the infrastructure most likely to reverse that trajectory. The years between 2020 and 2023 represent the most acute phase of the Black femicide…
Two decades of data reveal that Black women face persistently elevated risk of femicide–up to 20 times higher than white women in some states.
Joi Dickerson Neal is the second person to come forward with allegation that music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1991.1 Her lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on November 23, 2023, was submitted just one day before the expiration of the New York Adult Survivors Act-a law designed to give survivors of past abuse a…