Hip Hop

The first writing we covered this week was written by Gwendolyn D. Pough, Love Feminism but Where’s My Hip Hop?: Shaping a Black Feminist Identity. The writer writes about how she grew up with a real love of Hip Hop. She referred to herself as a third-wave Black feminist. She wrote about how she would make up rhymes to rap about her daily encounters. She also refers to Black female artists of her same generation such as Salt-N-Pepa and Shante’. She was empowered by these women because of their will to go out into the world and become something. She was also empowered by other strong female roles in her life such as her mother. When the writer would make up her rhymes they were pro-women. After growing up she has become a critic of rap and hip-hop culture while trying to explore the rhymes in different ways. She is has become Black feminist that isn’t afraid to look for new ways to speak out against racism and sexism. To me she is an amazing woman who sticks up for what she believes in.

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