Best Books For Hip-Hop Feminists
The 8 Books Every Hip-Hop Feminist Should Read
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"Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes From a Trap Feminist" by Sesali Bowen ($16)
Written by entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, this book is a mix of memoir and analysis. It follows Bowen from her early years falling in love with hip-hop on Chicago's South Side to profiling major artists like Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo. When Bowen realised that much of the complexity and nuance she was observing in the women she was writing about wasn't being reflected in mainstream feminism, she decided to coin her own term — "trap feminism" — which explores the boundaries between feminism and hip-hop while also reflecting on queerness, fatphobia, and capitalism at large.