Abstract
Black queer rap personifies and employs the use of Black feminist liberation tools in an attempt to gain access and subverts the heavily gendered arena known as Hip-Hop/Rap. Through Gwendolyn Pough’s model, it is seen that Rap—particularly for Black women—has historically been an autobiographical medium to not only convey one’s own story but it has also been a medium for proclamation of “selfhood” and space creation. However, in some cases, heteronormative tools of misogyny are concurrently mimicked. In this chapter, Norwood highlights how Black queer rappers use Black female rap politics to gain access and also how they mimic toxic heteronormative practices as well. He also shows how there is a fine line between liberation and objectification in the Rap battlefield and how seeking Black queer rap can change this.
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Norwood, K. (2021). Chapter 10: The Power of Boy Pussy: The Dichotomy Between Liberation and Objectification in Queer Hip-Hop/Rap in the 2000s. In: Fosbraey, G., Puckey, N. (eds) Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music. Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65189-3_11
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