Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology
Gwendolyn Poughis an associate professor of women's studies, writing, and rhetoric at Syracuse University and the author ofCheck It While I Wreck It, Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture,and thePublic Sphere,Northeastern University Press, 2004.Elaine Richardsonis an associate professor of English at Penn State University and the author ofAfrican American Literacies(2003) and the forthcomingHip Hop Literaciesboth from Routledge Press.Rachel Raimistis a Hip Hop feminist filmmaker, scholar, and activist. Her film credits include the award-winning feature length documentaries "Freestyle," "Nobody Knows My Name," and "Garbage, Gangsters, and Greed." She is a doctoral student in feminist studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.Aisha S. Durhamis an essayist and editorial assistant for several cultural studies journals, includingQualitative Inquirywhere her performance work is featured. Durham's dissertation research examining Hip-Hop feminism will be featured in an upcoming anthology and documentary about Hip-Hop culture. She is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.