Conference Videos

Thursday, April 7, 2005

Panel 1 – Hip Hop and Feminism on Screen

Panelists: Tamika Guishard (Hip Hop Gurlz), Alison Duke (Booty Nation), Rachel Raimist (Nobody Knows My Name), Byron Hurt (Beyond Beats and Rhymes), Tracye Matthews (moderator)

Friday, April 8, 2005

Panel 1 – A Sonic Exploration of Feminism and Hip Hop

Presented by the Kenwood Academy (University of Chicago Charter School) Program for Academic Excellence; Melissa Harris-Lacewell (moderator)

Panel 2 – Constructing the Sexual Politics of Black Women

Panelists: Tracye Rose, Valerie Chepp, Cynthia Beard, Norell Giancana (moderator)

Panel 3 – Masculinity and Hip Hop

Panelists: Matt Mirkhold, Georgia Roberts, Michael Ralph, David Ferguson (moderator)

Panel 4 – Language, Hip Hop, and Feminism

Panelists: Angie Collette Beatty, Jalylah Burrell, Jamarah Amani, Elizabeth Todd (moderator)

Panel 5 – Black Women and Visual Culture

Panelists: Carla Stokes, Yaba A. Blay and Kalia A. Story, Kamillah Clayton, Danielle Deadwyler, Tanji Gilliam (moderator)

Panel 6 – New Sources of Feminism

Panelists: Paul Khalil Saucier, Shana L. Redmond, Michael Jeffries, Stephanie Allen (moderator)

Panel 7 – The Hip Hop Archive: Standards and Questions in Hip Hop Research

Panelists: Marcyliena Morgan, Dionne Bennett, Dawn-Elissa Fischer

Panel 8 – Organizing Dilemmas: When Radical Feminists Come Face to Face with Hip Hop Activists

Panelists: Kimala Price, Zenzele Isoke, Angie Collette Beatty, Ruth Nicole Brown (moderator)

Opening Plenary – From Blues to Hip Hop: Rethinking Black Women’s Sexuality

Panelists: Gwendolyn Pough, Hazel V. Carby, Farash Jasmine Griffin, Anne M. Martinez (moderator)

Evening Plenary – Feminism and Hip Hop Panel and Q&A

Panelists: Joan Morgan, Tricia Rose, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Cathy J. Cohen (moderator)

Saturday, April 9, 2005

Panel 1 – Media Representations of Women in Hip Hop

Panelists: Melyssa Ford, Kim Osorio, Cheryl L. Keyes, Jessy Terrero, Jackie Stewart (moderator)

Panel 2 – Sexuality and Agency in Hip Hop

Panelists: Akiba Solomon, Imani Perry, Ana “Rokafella” Garcia, Deborah Nelson (moderator)

Panel 3 – Masculinity, Heterosexism, and Hip Hop

Panelists: Mark Anthony Neal, Byron Hurt, Felicia Miyakawa, Travis Jackson (moderator)

Panel 4 – Feminism, Politics, and Hip Hop on the Ground

Panelists: Rosa Clemente, Moya Bailey, Yvonne Bynoe, Melissa Harris-Lacewell (moderator)