What is hip hop feminism? The answer is not so trivial.
In 1999 Joan Morgan's book “When Chickenheads Come Home Roots” came out, from that moment hip hop feminism took on the basis of defining a new political identity. You think hip hop feminism (HHF) is the sum of the parts: take feminism and criticize hip hop, or take on the four disciplines with a feminist approach so as to build new niche, no, wrong! It would be reductive to take any mathematical or logical approach, just as intersectionality manifests itself through a specific positioning, HHF also takes a specific look that is not random or constructed.
From Joan Morgan, and many others, we will learn that HHF is a political approach that takes music as the fundamental lens through which to view social, political, historical, and cultural dynamics. Music as healing. It is an aptitude for presiding over territory and knowing how to pay proper attention to language (not so much in correctness as in sharing), highly critical of the academic theoretical approach that Morgan defines as “the ivory tower of feminist intellectuals” who share little with the sisters and brothers who live and build from below.
Morgan's HHF about the need for a community that knows how to love hip hop but not enough of itself, its sisters or brothers. It debunks the myth of the “SBW” (strong black woman) and the “EBM” (endangered black man), it doesn't shy away from raising thorny issues, it tackles the issue of sexuality, the social derangement of the black man in the United States. It is not only a book about hip hop but sheds light on many aspects that help us have much more critical capacity toward what is surely bigger than hip hop.
My articles and publications on hip hop feminism:
https://jacobinitalia.it/il-rap-spiegato-da-una-femminista/https://jacobinitalia.it/quando-il-rap-fece-rima-con-sessismo/https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/from-pimpology-to-pimpologia-a-comparative-analysis-of-pimp-rap-ihttps://www.openstarts.units.it/server/api/core/bitstreams/2bf9bf6b-f998-48b7-9766-486ec0b9fd28/contenthttps://www.rapologia.it/wissal-houbabi-intervista/https://lespresso.it/c/idee/2021/11/30/a-colpi-di-rap-contro-il-machismo-la-lezione-di-wissal-houbabi/20772