Elaine B. Richardson (aka Dr. E) is a community-engaged scholar of Literacy Studies at The Ohio State University. She is a performing artist, writer, speaker, and survivor who has won many awards over the course of her inspirational life.Gwendolyn D. Pough is an award-winning professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Her groundbreaking book Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere was the first book on women in Hip Hop.Treva B. Lindsey is an award-winning author and professor at The Ohio State University specializing in African American women's history and culture. She is the cofounder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora's House in Columbus, Ohio, and the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants for her cutting-edge research.

• Contents  Foreword: Hip Hop's Black Queer TemporalityShanté Paradigm SmallsEditors' ForewordsElaine B. Richardson, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Treva B. LindseyPrefaceAcknowledgments  Introduction1. Ladies Night: On Missy Elliott, Collaboration, and Black Queer Feminist RelationalitiesElliott H. Powell2. "I'm a Whole Bisexual": Cardi B, "WAP," and Bisexual ErasureLauron Kehrer3. Homolatent Masculinity and Hip Hop CultureMoya Bailey4. The "Gangsta Bitch" of G-Funk: Theorizing Black Gender and Sexuality at the End of Black MoralityBrittnay L. Proctor5. Material Girls: Saucy Santana and Femme Black Rappers as Descendants of ResistanceParker Foster6. Queering Brazilian Hip Hop Literacies: TIELY Artivist Interventions into Diasporic (Trans*)PeripheriesTanya L. Saunders7. Making a Way in the Meantime: Sampling "Industry Baby" to Reimagine What's Possible in Literacy Classroomsshea wesley martin8. Queering the Syllabi in Hip Hop StudiesAnamaría Flores9. Queering Hip Hop Politics: Living/Lives MatterAndreana Clay10. Black Feminist Rule #3080: Don't Be Everybody's Cup of Tea, Be Free in The PynkElaine B. Richardson and Gwendolyn D. Pough  Further Reading and ViewingContributorsIndex