About the Author

Gwendolyn Pough is an associate professor of women's studies, writing, and rhetoric at Syracuse University and the author of Check It While I Wreck It, Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere, Northeastern University Press, 2004. Elaine Richardson is an associate professor of English at Penn State University and the author of African American Literacies (2003) and the forthcoming Hip Hop Literacies both from Routledge Press. Rachel Raimist is a Hip Hop feminist filmmaker, scholar, and activist. Her film credits include the award-winning feature length documentaries "Freestyle," "Nobody Knows My Name," and "Garbage, Gangsters, and Greed." She is a doctoral student in feminist studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Aisha S. Durham is an essayist and editorial assistant for several cultural studies journals, including Qualitative Inquiry where her performance work is featured. Durham's dissertation research examining Hip-Hop feminism will be featured in an upcoming anthology and documentary about Hip-Hop culture. She is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.