Graffiti grrlz : performing feminism in the hip hop diaspora / Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pabón-Colón, Jessica Nydia, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists.

Graffiti artists.

Graffiti.

Street art.

Hip-hop feminism.

Feminism in art.

Hip-hop.

Mural painting and decoration--20th century.

Mural painting and decoration.

Physical Description:

xii, 263 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Performing feminism in the hip hop diaspora

Graffiti girls

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Drawing on the lives of over 100 women in 23 countries, Pabón-Colón argues that graffiti art is an unrecognized but crucial space for the performance of feminism in the hands and minds of women graffiti artists. She demonstrates how it builds communities of artists, reconceptualizes the Hip Hop masculinity of these spaces, and rejects notions of girl power. Pabón-Colón 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. --From publisher description.

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.

Contents:

Timeline of crews, events, and media

Foreword: Miss17

Introduction: "The art of getting ovaries"

Performing feminist masculinity in a postfeminist era

Doing feminist community without "feminist" identity

Cultivating affective digital networks

Re-membering herstory and the transephemeral performative

Transforming precarity at international all-grrl jams

Conclusion: Connecting one graffiti grrl to another

Appendix: Blackbook.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781479806157

1479806153

9781479895939

1479895938

OCLC:

1035749219

Publisher Number:

40028340766