Building the World

Towards a Genealogy of Feminist Women in Hip Hop Culture Mexico

Abstract

In 2014, in Mexico, a movement of feminist rappers began to take shape, revealing how important changes were taking place within the hip hop culture. The presence of feminist women in this cultural proposal, characterized worldwide by four elements like rap, breaking, DJing and graffiti, highlighted the great transformations that were taking place in the culture that was born in the Bronx, in New York in the 1970s. These changes are articulated to the worldview of hip hop that considers the “construction of a better world”, which, together with its four artistic practices and the presence of feminisms, configure what is currently known as feminist hip hop in Mexico. Throughout this text we seek to answer the general question posed: what is the genealogy of feminist women
involved in hip hop culture in Mexico? As part of the objectives is to understand the particularities of enunciation and the forms of organization that women build in this culture, and finally, to identify the specificity of the knowledge built by feminist women in hip  hop. The space of the hip hop party is also analyzed as a place for the configuration of a feminist pedagogy in Mexico. The results show that the presence of feminism in hip hop culture lives within the framework of activism linked to the Fourth Wave of Feminism
at a global level.