Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism

"This exciting volume shows that Hip Hop is much more than a platform for hegemonic and cisgendered masculinity. It is also the floor from which femme, queer, nonbinary, trans, and feminist subjectives can rise and come into their own. Every serious student and listener of this music should own a copy of this anthology."--Roderick A. Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional Queer "I love how so many of the essays in this book go back and forth between the theoretical, the musical, the visual, and the autobiographical to elucidate how the personal is political. This volume is timely and necessary."--Kaila Adia Story, author of The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity "Pulling together some of the most powerful voices in Hip Hop studies--and situating queerness as a way of being and doing--this collection offers a new pitch to the field. Doing Black feminist Hip Hop study with an intentionally Black queer tone, this volume invites the reader to think fresh and anew. It is fierce, it is bold, and it is a critical breath of fresh air."--Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr., author of Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing "I remember thinking I couldn't be a lesbian and also a Hip Hop head. I thought I had to choose. Queer Black feminism made my world make sense. This book, these writers, and their love for Hip Hop and queer Black feminism remind us we never have to choose. This collection moves across geographies, styles, and histories, taking the reader from Saucy Santana and homolatent masculinity to queer Brazilian Hip Hop, and pushing us to see what Hip Hop can be when we are free of binaries, constraints, and the limits others try to place on our lives."--Bettina L. Love, author of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal