Graffiti grrlz [electronic resource] : performing feminism in the hip hop diaspora / Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón.

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Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be, and, despite the artists' anonymity, graffiti su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pabón-Colón, Jessica Nydia (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Graffiti.
Street art.
Hip-hop.
Graffiti artists.
Women artists.
Hip-hop feminism.
Mural painting and decoration > 20th century.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Graffiti girls
Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Timeline of Crews, Events, and Media
  • Foreword : Miss17
  • Introduction: "The Art of Getting Ovaries"
  • Performing Feminist Masculinity in a Postfeminist Era
  • Doing Feminist Community without "Feminist" Identity
  • Cultivating Affective Digital Networks
  • Re-Membering Herstory and the Transephemeral Performative
  • Transforming Precarity at International All-Grrl Jams
  • Conclusion: Connecting One Graffiti Grrl to Another.