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Fresh, Bold, & So Def (FBSD) is a women and gender research and archive project created to empower and cultivate women in Hip-Hop through a social enterprise solution’s model that is both educational and entrepreneurial. Incubated at the Hip-Hop Education Center at New York University's Metropolitan Center, the objective of FBSD is to promote positive images and motivational stories of powerful women in diverse roles and leadership positions within Hip-Hop culture through an educational platform that can be used in classrooms, libraries, museums, community centers, public forums, employment centers, and correctional facilities.
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Preliminary Outline:
Introduction – Martha Diaz, Dr. Irma McClaurin and Dr. Rachel Raimist
Acknowledgements
Chapter I - B-Girl Breaks, Broken Hearts, and Movement: Building a Home (of Hip-Hop Feminism) By Dr. Rachel Raimist
Chapter II - Birth of the Hip-Hop Woman by Roxanne Shante
Chapter III – An Excerpt from Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop – LADY PINK and Graffiti’s Rebel Codes by Jeff Chang
Chapter IV - Women’s Political Clout…Leading The Hip-Hop Political Movement by Erica Ford
Song: by the artist Invincible (Detroit)
Chapter V – Media, Power, Respect…Women in Hip-Hop Film and Video By Maori Karmeal Holmes
Chapter VI - Getting Down To Business: Don’t Talk About It, Be About It! by Elisha Miranda
Chapter VII - Herstory: Rocking The Page, Representing Lovely By Sofia Quintero
Chapter VIII - Empowering Women Through Education: There’s Plenty To Do By Marcella Runell Hall
Chapter IX – Hip-Hop Fashionista: Always Fly by Emilie Janin
Chapter X – Rihanna/Chris Brown: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls by Kevin Powell
Chapter XI – Beyond Gossip, Good and Evil by Elizabeth Mendez Berry
Chapter XII - That White Girl By JLove
Chapter XIII – Taking Hip-Hop Outside The Box By Nirit Peled and Lucy Crystal
Chapter XIV – We B*Girlz: How long is now? By Nika Kramer/Bianca Ludewig (Germany)
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B-Girl Living a B-Boy World by Rokafella
Chapter XV – Las Krudas and the Cuban Feminist Movement by Omega Kilay (Cuba)
Unapologetic By DJ Leides (Cuba)
Chapter XVI - Graffiti, Women and Brazilian Society By Panmela Castro aka Anarkia (Brazil)
Chapter XVII – South African Women: Rising Above Circumstances By ControVersy
Chapter XVIII – Japanese Female Hip-Hop Movement by Keiko Tsukada
Chapter XIX – The 1st US State Hip-Hop Ambassador By Toni Blackman
Chapter XX – Creating Younity By Alice Mizrachi and Toofly
Chapter XXI– The Year 1969 by Kamilah Forbes
Chapter XXII – To B Queer in Hip-Hop By Tiq Milan, Diana Noriega & Celiany Rivera-Velazquez
Chapter XXIII – Translinear Flight: Hip-Hop Consciousness By Suheir Hammad
Chapter XXIV - Ashe, Shakti, Ch’I, and the Holy Ghost: The Fifth Element of Hip-Hop By Diane McClure
Chapter XXV – The Creation of the Goddess By Rha Goddess
Chapter XXVI – REACHH for Revolution: How Hip-Hop Politicized Me By DJ Kuttin’ Kandi
Chapter XXVII – A B-Girl in B-Boy World by Rokafella
Chapter XXVIII – Mothers of Hip-Hop Generation by Dr. Irma McClaurin
Appendix A - Directory of 365 int’l women
Appendix B – Achievement Timeline By Jee-Nice, Felicia Pride, and Rachel Raimist
Appendix C – Supplemental resources: Lesson Plans/Teaching Tools/Reference list
· Priya Parmar – Lesson Plan: Mainstream Representation of Women in Hip-Hop
