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More conference bitching

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on June 7, 2008 - 2:33pm; tagged conferences, democracy, documentary, events, film, hip-hop, masculinity, media justice, media reform, misogyny, movie, National Conference on Media Reform, radical politics, sexism, watch this!.

I was back in Minneapolis this weekend for the National Conference for Media Reform, an annual event organized by the folks at Free Press, a nonpartisan group focused on media reform and policy.

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Resisting and organizing through creative media

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on June 5, 2008 - 4:42pm; tagged AMC 2008, classism, community organizing, Detroit, documentary, gentrification, hip-hop, music, music videos, racism.

I'm back in Portland, still processing and reflecting on my trip to the Midwest. I'll be posting more about that soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to share this video about displacement/gentrification in Detroit, featuring Detroit-based female hip-hop artist, Invincible. It's a beautiful example of how powerful a story becomes when different forms of media are combined.

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Sister Outsider Headbanger

Article by Keidra Chaney, appeared in issue Music; published in 2000; filed under Social commentary; tagged fanzines, hip-hop, metal, music, race, stereotypes.

On Being a Black Feminist Metalhead

Music

I’m not sure exactly when or how it happened, but at some point in my childhood I began to think I was a white guy trapped in the body of a black girl. And not just any white guy, either—a guitar player in a heavy-metal band.

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