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Pied Piper (3 min)
Lenelle Moïse
United StatesGALLERYCONVERSATION
I also witnessed the graphic mutation of hip-hop on the small screen-from brave B-boys funneling masculine...
Music videos taught me how to grind my virgin hips like a veteran vixen. At my senior prom, the DJ played to thrill us with unabashed misogyny. Guilty sweat soaked through my expensive pastel gown as I danced to degradation with my first love.
Like many of my peers, I struggled for years to reconcile my love for my mother, for the goddesses, for the Earth, and for myself with my consumption of sexist pop culture. Ironically, it took explicit racism to wake me up. When the boys from the ‘burbs started to casually hurl the "n-word," my people once "crumped" to and tried to reclaim, I decided to take a stand.
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