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A Soft Place to Land, Welcome to the Grey
"We need a feminism that admits we have messy, complicated, and sometimes contradictory desires." - Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (1999)
There is a moment.
And if you are a Black woman who loves hip-hop, who grew up on hip-hop, who has hip-hop in her body the way some people have church, you know this moment.
A song comes on. And the song is objectifying. The lyrics reduce a woman to her body. The beat is designed to make you move in ways that are not respectable. And you know all of this. You have the framework. You have read Patricia Hill Collins. You have sat in…
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