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PROGRAMS
About the Program
Exhibits
Education
Film Series
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"A
whole lot of people have been lamenting that 'I love feminism' and
'I love hip-hop' can't coexist; I want us to move past that."
Gwendolyn D. Pough
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Check
It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public
Sphere
by Gwendolyn D. Pough (Northeastern University Press, 2004)
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When
Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down
by Joan Morgan (Simon & Schuster, 1999).
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Droppin'
Science Vol. 1: Female Hip Hop
a PDF publication of FemaleHipHop.net, 2005.
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The
Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity and Identity in London and
New York
by Nancy Macdonald (Palgrave, 2001)
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"I've
experienced much more than just being a woman in Hip-Hop. But if you
look at a larger picture, the media exploits only certain types of
Hip-Hop in order to keep the misogynistic attitude happening . Eventually,
the feminine energy is going to break through, and hopefully I'm a
part of that movement." Medusa
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"Ideally,
queer hip-hop can create changes. It can be the critical check for
all the negative aspects that have come out of the culture in the
last few years. You won't be able to assume there isn't a faggot in
the room; you won't be able to assume there isn't a feminist in the
room. Hip-hop will be different because we decided to participate
in it openly and with honor." Tim'm West
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Nobody
Knows My Name
(2005) by Rachel Raimist.
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Mistress
X: Hip-Hop's Unsung Heroine
(2003) by Dante Kaba
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B-Girl:
The Movie
(2002), directed by Emily Dell
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"It
wasn't that the male started rap, the male was just the first to be
put on wax. Females were always into rap, and females always had their
little crews and were always known for rockin' house parties and streets
or whatever, school yards, the corner, the park, whatever it was."
Ms. Melodie
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"As
a music-video director, I have problems all the time getting work,
because I refuse to write the treatments that record companies want--hot
girls, cars, palm trees and so on. At some point you have to give
in and do something, and try to do it in a stylized way, so it todesn't
depict us as even crazier than what's out there. After getting the
songs and listening to them over and over, I just say, 'No, thank
you.' " Fatima Robinson
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Jean
Grae
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Juba
Kalamka
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Tricia
Rose
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Medusa
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Gwendolyn
Pough and Mark Anthony Neal
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Kuttin
Kandi
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"By
asking hip hop to reform, we are essentially demanding hip hop's primary
consumer base to consume music that is anti-sexist, anti-misogynistic
and possibly feminist." Mark Anthony Neal
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"The
'homohop' name serves a purpose now, but hopefully in the future we'll
just be a part of everything and won't need it. I don't want to be
limited by labels. Hip-hop is hip-hop." Jen-Ro
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RESOURCES
Hip-Hop in a Global Context
Hip-Hop,
Activism, and Social Change
Hip-Hop,
Gender, and Sexuality
Graffiti:
Free Expression, Public Space, and the Commons
Change
Methods' Playlist: Global Hip-Hop
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PROGRAMS
Hip-Hop, Arts, and Activism: What's the
Connection?
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