There has been a substantial amount of work created at the intersection of Digital Black Feminisms and Hip Hop Feminisms over the last five or so years. While finishing my book Black Girls Are From the Future: Essays on Race Digital Creativity and Pop Culture I realized that a lot of the contemporary and cutting edge work currently done at this intersection is happening on the internet (thank you to @zandria for pointing this out!) I also realized that I have written nearly 30 blog posts written at this intersection. Some of the work is awful and I am not proud of it, some of the work is awesome, in that I am pushing the limits on race, gender and sexuality in hip hop within the public sphere. There are also moments where it seemed as though I was writing to stay alive.
I decided to make the beginnings of an archive of this work so that this history isn’t obscured, lost or rendered irrelevant like so much of the work created by our Black feminist foremothers. My rationale is that in archiving our work, I archive theirs too, because we would not exist without the Black feminists and womanists who came before us. Please leave additional articles, blog posts that I may have missed in the comments section. #StakesIsHigh.
BLOG POSTS AND ARTICLES – Hip Hop Feminisms: Digital Black Feminisms
Beyonce Says Big Ego, but Ruth says, “Eat your [damn] eggs, Walter Lee” by Fallon W, 2009.
Chris Brown is Effing Up My Sex Life by Crunktastic, 2011
And You Even Licked My Balls: A Black Feminist Note on Nate Dogg by Renina Jarmon, 2011
Is Beyonce the Face of Contemporary Feminism? by Arielle Loren, 2011
On Being Feminisms Ms. N-I-G-G-A by Latoya Peterson, 2011
Nicki Minaj: The Flyest Feminist by April Gregory, 2011
First You Gotta Put Your Neck Into It: Loving Pariah by Andreana Clay, 2012
Ooh La La La: Reflections on Lady T by Andreana Clay, 2010
Hip Hop, Patriarchy: My Struggles with Mobb Deep by Renina Jarmon, 2008
by Arielle Loren
Dear Old Morehouse, by 2009 L’Heureux Dumi Lewis-McCoy
Feminism and Hip Hop Blogs: An Uneasy Marriage by Renina Jarmon, 2011
On the Mean Girls of Morehouse, by Moya Bailey, 2010
On Eddie Long and NWNW, by Moya Bailey, 2010
Really Regis, by Moya Bailey, 2011
Musing on Genealogies, Sex, Digital Black Feminisms by Renina Jarmon, 2011
Why Jay Electronica Can Choke on His Own Words by Crunktastic, 2010
Beyond/With Precious: Black Women Incest and Rape by Renina Jarmon and Moya Bailey, 2010
For Colored Bloggers Who Consider Racism and Sexism by Renina Jarmon, 2010
On Ashely Judd and The Politics of Citation by Moya Bailey, 2011
My Daddy Ain’t No Feminist by Renina Jarmon, 2010
I Know Why Zane Sells by Renina Jarmon, 2008
Why People Hate 808’s and Heartbreak by Renina Jarmon, 2008
We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For, Young Black Feminists Take Their Research and Activism Online by Moya Bailey and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 2010
Students At Spellman College Protest Nelly’s Video ‘Tip Drill by Moya Bailey, 2005.
Tricks Getting Whipped: Race, Class, and the “Politics of Obliteration” in Memphis by Zandria Robinson, 2013
Carry on Tradition by Britni Danielle, 2010
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DOCUMENTARIES, VIDEOS AND FILMS – Hip Hop Feminisms: Digital Black Feminisms
Beyond Beats and Rhymes dir. by Byron Hurt
My Mic Sounds Nice dir. by Ava Duvernay (Check here, here and here too.)
Black Woman Walking dir. by Tracey Rose
Say My Name dir. by Nirit Peled
Who’s that Girl: Women of Color in Hip Hop dir. by Nuala Cabral
Barack and Curtis by Byron Hurt
Walking Home by Nuala Cabral
Hey Shorty by Girls For Gender Equity, 2009
Hollaback Interview: Nuala Cabral by HollaBackPhilly, 2011
BOOKS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES – Hip Hop Feminisms
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost:My Life As a Hip Hop Feminist by Joan Morgan, 1999.
Home Girls Make Some Noise edited by Gwendolyn Pough, 2007. (Synopsis here.)
Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership and Hip Hop Culture by Yvonne Bynoe, 2004.
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism by Patricia Hill Collins, 2006.
Nappy Happy: A Conversation Between Ice Cube and Angela Davis by Angela Davis, 1992
bell hooks Interview by Lawrence Chua, 1994
Wish To Live: The Hip-hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader edited by Ruth Nicole Brown and Chamara Jewel Kwakye, 2012.
Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak by Bettina L. Love, 2012.
Mapping the Intersections: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw, 1993
Black Noise by Tricia Rose, 1994
Hip Hop Wars by Tricia Rose, 2008
Hip Hop Matters, Craig Watkins, 2006
The Fire This Time, Young Activists and The New Feminism edited by , 2004
Colonize This!:Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisey Hernandez and Bushra Rehman, 2002
Pimps Up, Hoes Down: Hip Hops Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, 2008
Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones, 1997