B-Girl Be, started by a group of Minneapolis women, will hold its first summit on Women in Hip Hop this weekend:
B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women In Hip-hop will be a place to make connections, build confidence, sharpen skills, and to gain access to the tools to create music, film, poetry, rap, aerosol art, and dance.
...It encourages the positive portrayal and involvement of women in hip-hop through open mics, slam poetry sessions, lectures, video screenings and a fashion show.
For these women, hip-hop is about gender, politics, or even body image or abortion, instead of the violence portrayed in mainstream hip-hop.
Awesome. If you're in the area, make sure to show your support. The line-up of artists and events looks amazing. All of a sudden I kinda wish I lived in Minnesota.
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damn, i REALLY wish i lived in minnesota.
minnesota rocks! (am from there, currently attending college elsewhere, but damn it's a good place, even with our current terrible governor and our previous crazy governor...) also, university of minnesota puts out quite a bit of interesting sexuality research...