Image: from Female Rappers who Changed the Hip Hop Game.

For books, articles, documentaries, playlists, and much more, see The Hip-Hop Feminist Syllabus, curated by professor Janell Hobson.

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Timothy Bella: She threw a party to buy school clothes. Hip-hop was born that night.

Mickell Carter: The Transnational Activism of Women in Hip Hop.

Janell Hobson:

• Surviving Hip-Hop: The Ms. Q&A with Drew Dixon.
• Southern Hip-Hop Feminists Got Something to Say: The Ms. Q&A on Hip-Hop’s Reverse Migration.
• Women Are Hip-Hop’s Culture Bearers: The Ms. Q&A With Elaine Richardson and Kyra Gaunt.
• Developing Hip-Hop Feminist Scholarship: The Ms. Q&A With Tricia Rose and Gwendolyn Pough.
• Resisting Erasure: The Ms. Q&A With Dee Barnes, Hip-Hop Legend.
• Five Decades of Women in Hip-Hop: A Feminist Anthem Playlist.
• Turning 50: Writing Women into the Story of Hip-Hop, Five Decades After Its Founding.

Rob LeDonne: ‘Women helped build this’: celebrating the ladies of hip-hop. In an expansive Netflix docuseries, major figures speak about the often overlooked contributions to a male-dominated genre.

Niela Orr: The Future of Rap is Female.