IC's Assistant Professors Nicole Horsley and Ashley Hall invite you to take part in this interactive presentation to consider ratchetness as a site of possibilities for self-proclaimed hoes turned Hip-Hop female rappers. These women create a broader context for us to examine and expand the concept of intersectionality as a lived praxis for Black female artists.
Professor Horsley works in CSCRE. Her commitment to social justice for Black girls and women has led her to explore poor and working-class Black cis and transgender women’s sexual economies of labor and pleasure. Through the figure/trope of the “freak” in pornography, popular and sonic culture, she explores how Black women resist sexual oppression through reclaiming fatness, queer identities, ratchet, and gendered non-conforming bodies.
Professor Hall works in Communications Studies. She is a rhetorical scholar by training with specializations in African American rhetoric, race and gender studies, contemporary rhetorical theory and critical media studies. Her current research centers Black women’s mothering and maternity and the strategies they employ to navigate the constraints of heteronormative mothering in whiteness. Drawing on historical representations of Black women as mammies, jezebels, and baby mama’s, she theorizes about the available rhetorical capacities Black women have in challenging misconceptions and over-representations of Black mothering as criminal in anti-blackness.
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20170926164310668