Pass My Crown (The Women’s Voice in Hip Hop)
Date: Friday, Mar 17, 2023
Start time: 6:15pm
End time: 8:30pm
Location: Academic Learning Commons (1000 Floyd Avenue), room 1107
Audience: Students, faculty/staff, and the public
Women's HERstory Month Event
Pass My Crown (The Women’s Voice in Hip Hop)
This event will focus on a discussion about women in Hip Hop currently as well as historically. It will explore the subject matter of lyrics, dress, feminism/womanism, culture appropriation (the Black woman aesthetic), overt and covert misogyny, activism, what’s next for women in Hip Hop, and how a multitude of women's voices need to be heard.
The panel discussion will consist of Tiye Phoenix (Recording Artist & School Counselor), Shanita Hubbard - College Professor & Author ("Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women"), StaHHR (Recording Artist), Queen Herawin (Recording Artist), and with Dr. Grace Gipson (VCU-AFAM professor) serving as moderator.
Sponsor(s): Department of African American Studies, Department of Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies, Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, Girls for a Change
Event contact: Adofo Ka-Re, pattonrs2@vcu.edu