Hip Hop Feminists as Cultural Workers
Hip hop feminists use alternative sources of knowledge as power
Poetry, Performance, Role-play, Music, Visual Art
Uses women’s voices, stories, personal experience and testimonials
Honor’s the “I�– “We speak from the self outward�
Hip hop feminists speak through alternative representations of women of color that challenge and subvert racial-sexual stereotypes
Uses identity to name and subvert power imbalance