- “A successful female artist must not only be talented, but also able to titillate the gaze of an assumed male viewer”
2. "The female body is rarely a site of empowerment except when it is being objectified to define female strength through heterosexist sexiness, which, displayed for male satisfaction, creates little real power for women. Because female rappers' value lies in their ability to perform masculinity as well as be sexually objectified, when a femcee is not performing the role of the sexually available coquette nor the female thug, her power and agency are nonexistent."
3. “In stark contrast with these darkside girls, we also notice there is currently a proliferation of preternaturally exuberant female artists – Azealia Banks, Dominique Young Unique, Lady Leshurr, Kreayshawn – using electro and hip-hop as vehicles to express their fierce, feisty personalities.”
4. Being a woman in hip-hop isn't about wearing a little pair of shorts and shaking your arse for guys," she says. "It's about empowering yourself by performing something you believe in."
5. "We all agreed that women in hip-hop are generally neglected," says Julia Carruthers, the Southbank's head of dance and performance, who commissioned the festival. "It seems concerned with commercial interests and male swagger."
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