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“(Robinson)’s comedic and politically prescient narratives, like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s music, highlight how the post-Civil Rights era imaginaries and practices of Black femme consumer cultures can be rich sites for political strategy if the vision for change is expanded beyond the moralisms of patriarchy. Rather than simply mimic consumer culture, Hood Tales comes into being through it, as the works are produced and available to the public as art objects through Amazon on-demand publishing, raising questions around which subjects can afford to perform “responsible” consumption. (Robinson)’s practice suggests that ideas of “good” consumerism can be an illusion in a national political economy that was underwritten by chattel slavery.” — Jillian Hernandez, Ph.d

Excerpted from NOTES ON THOT CAMP AND THE END OF EMPIRE for The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

It is a unique honor to be so thoroughly, radically, and consistently understood. Thank you Dr. Hernandez for endeavoring to include my work in your scholarship.

— k(R)

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