TY - BOOK ID - 56992188 TI - Graffiti Grrlz : Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora PY - 2018 SN - 9781479895939 9781479806157 1479806153 1479895938 1479847429 PB - New York : Baltimore, Md. : New York University Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Graffiti. KW - Street art. KW - Hip-hop. KW - Graffiti artists. KW - Women artists. KW - Hip-hop feminism. KW - Mural painting and decoration KW - Mural painting and decoration. KW - Graffito KW - Hip-Hop KW - Streetart KW - Feminismus KW - Frauenbewegung KW - 1900-1999 KW - Graffito. KW - Streetart. KW - Feminismus. KW - Frauenkunst. KW - Hip-Hop. KW - Hip-hop culture KW - Hiphop KW - African American arts KW - Popular culture KW - Feminism KW - Gender KW - International KW - Art KW - Subcultures UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56992188 AB - Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be, and, despite the artists' anonymity, graffiti subculture is seen as a boys club, where the presence of the graffiti girl is almost unimaginable. Jessica Nydia Pabon-Colon interrupts this stereotype and introduces us to the world of women graffiti artists. Drawing on the lives of over 100 women in 23 countries, Pabon-Colon argues that graffiti art is an unrecognized but crucial space for the performance of feminism. She demonstrates how it builds communities of artists, reconceptualizes the Hip Hop masculinity of these spaces, and rejects notions of girl power. 'Graffiti Grrlz' also unpacks the digital side of Hip Hop graffiti subculture and considers how it widens the presence of the woman graffiti artist and broadens her networks, which leads to the formation of all-girl graffiti crews or the organization of all-girl painting sessions. ER -