I think grounding it in the world we live in, and what's happening right now, is really helpful for people to see that misogynoir - even though it's a new term that I coined - it's actually drawing on lineages that go back to Black people's non-consensual arrival in the Americas. So, one thing that I talk about specifically, is that misogynoir names something that Black feminists have been talking about for a long time. So, we can look at the work of Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, Ida B. Wells. There are ways that Black women have been thinking through these questions of what it means to be Black and a woman that isn't just an additive proposition. It's something that can metastasize into something even more ugly, in terms of how people respond to it. I was thinking about misogynoir writing my dissertation, which was looking at medical school representations of patients and students. So, how students were understanding themselves as future physicians and how they were seeing their patients. And it was right after the Flexner Report, the 1910s, where medical students are really pushing against a move to make medical school much more academic, in the way that we understand now. Moving away from an apprenticeship model and so becoming more science-based, much more of a valorized profession, and a profession that only wealthy kids could get into. With that came a lot of ideas about who the "ideal" patient was. And the ideal patient came to reflect these students in medical school. Generally, wealthy White men of a certain age. There were representations of Black women in these texts. I was looking at Emory School of Medicine. This is the segregated South, but there were surprisingly lots of representations of Black women, caricatures of Black women, and jokes and stories putting Black women against the White male medical students as these diametrically opposed entities. These medical students had all of the biases and were taking in all of the social cues and cultural ideas that were percolating at the time. So, there was something very particular about Black women's experience that got me thinking there's a unique antagonism that needs to be named. And that's where I came up with the term misogynoir.