Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism presents a dynamic and much-needed fresh analysis of Black gendering and racialized sexualities in the sphere of Hip Hop. Editors Elaine B. Richardson, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Treva B. Lindsey bring together established and rising scholars to examine the work of Hip Hop creators and practitioners, using the genre as a lens to address the crises of this historical moment, marked by attacks on bodily autonomy, LGBTQ+ rights, education, and Black studies. Tracing legacies of queer Black feminist activism and expression through Hip Hop culture and music, this timely anthology recenters queer Black feminism and cements its place in (Black) culture, liberation movements, and education.
Contents
Foreword: Hip Hop's Black Queer Temporality
Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Editors' Forewords
Elaine B. Richardson, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Treva B. Lindsey
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ladies Night: On Missy Elliott, Collaboration, and Black Queer Feminist
Relationalities
Elliott H. Powell
2. "I'm a Whole Bisexual": Cardi B, "WAP," and Bisexual Erasure
Lauron Kehrer
3. Homolatent Masculinity and Hip Hop Culture
Moya Bailey
4. The "Gangsta Bitch" of G-Funk: Theorizing Black Gender and Sexuality at
the End of Black Morality
Brittnay L. Proctor
5. Material Girls: Saucy Santana and Femme Black Rappers as Descendants of
Resistance
Parker Foster
6. Queering Brazilian Hip Hop Literacies: TIELY Artivist Interventions into
Diasporic (Trans*)Peripheries
Tanya L. Saunders
7. Making a Way in the Meantime: Sampling "Industry Baby" to Reimagine
What's Possible in Literacy Classrooms
shea wesley martin
8. Queering the Syllabi in Hip Hop Studies
Anamaría Flores
9. Queering Hip Hop Politics: Living/Lives Matter
Andreana Clay
10. Black Feminist Rule #3080: Don't Be Everybody's Cup of Tea, Be Free in
The Pynk
Elaine B. Richardson and Gwendolyn D. Pough
Further Reading and Viewing
Contributors
Index
Elaine B. Richardson (aka Dr. E) is a community-engaged scholar of Literacy Studies at The Ohio State University. She is a performing artist, writer, speaker, and survivor who has won many awards over the course of her inspirational life.
Gwendolyn D. Pough is an award-winning professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Her groundbreaking book Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere was the first book on women in Hip Hop.
Treva B. Lindsey is an award-winning author and professor at The Ohio State University specializing in African American women's history and culture. She is the cofounder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora's House in Columbus, Ohio, and the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants for her cutting-edge research.
