Don’t Believe the Hype: The Radical Elements of Hip-Hop

“Don’t Believe the Hype: the Radical Elements of Hip-Hop” is an installation that showcases the five elements of hip-hop culture. These elements—graffiti writing, breakdancing, deejaying, emceeing, and knowledge production— have been utilized to speak truth and justice about social ills in the United States and beyond. This exhibit illustrates the conscious roots of hip-hop culture from the South Bronx in the 1970s and follows that course to our current moment, where hip-hop still remains a powerful voice for those who are marginalized by dominant structures of power

Solarize-ing Native hip-hop: Native feminist land ethics and cultural resistance

In this article I focus in-depth on what constitutes cultural resistance within the genre of Native Hip-Hop. Rather than examining multiple songs and artists I have chosen to focus on one recent Native hip-hop song titled “Solarize” which was created in 2013 through United Roots Oakland (a youth center for green arts and media) by Desirae Harp (Mishewal Wappo Tribe of the Alexander Valley), Fly50, and SeasunZ. I argue that the collective work in this song moves us closer to developing a Native feminist land ethic which privileges living with the land rather than over the land; and, at the level of praxis, their song builds alliance with, rather than isolation from, Black communities. Therefore, the song represents the productive move of employing what Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith have called “theoretical promiscuity” through hip-hop music and culture

Beading as Medicine : Volume 1

"4.25" x 5.5" zine theorizing Indigenous beadwork practices. Features contributions from 25 Native womxn and non-binary bead artists. Edited by Kimberly Robertson (Mvskoke) and Jenell Navarro (Cherokee)." -- Author's website

Beading as Medicine : Volume 2

"zine theorizing Indigenous beadwork practices. Features contributions from 32 Native womxn and non-binary bead artists." -- Author's website