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Hello, alternet friends! Here are some more links for hip-hop feminism, in rough chronological order:
Joan Morgan’s When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down
Spelman student Moya Bailey blog and Alternet archive, including the story about the Nelly protest
Florida Atlantic University cancels Ying-Yang Twins concert
Essence’s Take Back the Music campaign
Ludacris hires strippers for a party, is “targeted by women’s groups” (though “activists” and “Women’s groups” are never named, nor asked for comment)
Download Elizabeth Mendez Berry’s important article Love Hurts, about domestic violence in hip-hop, from the Feb issue of Vibe magazine
Essence’s Images of Women in Hip-hop Panel at FIT in New York featuring Remy Martin, Jean Grae, Akiba Solomon, Karen Hunter and Beverly Bond
Feminism & Hip-Hop Conference at the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
Hip-Hop Feminism Yahoo Group that emerged as a result of Feminism & Hip-Hop Conference
The Color of Violence III conference in New Orleans
Kim Osorio and Michelle Joyce sue The Source for sexual harrassment
B-Girl Be info page
Hip-Hop Journos Speak Out Against Sexism: Jeff Chang and Elizabeth Mendez Berry discuss their petition of The Source sexual harrassment case
LINKS:
Verbalisms Magazine
Lynne D. Johnson
Jalylah Burrell
Tricia Rose
Mark Anthony Neal
Miranda Jane‘s pyramids 2 the projects
blackfeminism.org
Rachel Raimist
Carla Murphy
More Hip-Hop Feminism links
(if i missed you, email julianneshepherd@yahoo.com and I’ll add)