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Nikki Patin has been writing for close to 22 years. She has taught dozens of workshops at various high schools, colleges and universities on performance poetry, body image, sexual assault prevention and LGBT issues. In 2004, Nikki was featured on the fourth season of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and in 2006, took the gold medal in the Gay Games International LGBT poetry slam. Nikki resides in Chicago and is a freelance writer, performer and educator.
SHARE Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Misogyny
It was during my training to become a state-certified rape crisis counselor that I understood that my cultural revolution had turned on me.If female is an essential part of the definition of slurs that appear on the majority of hip-hop albums,then those MCs are definitely talking about me.Women exist in hip-hop as objects of lust or objects of scorn.I feel either inadequate or insulted.I don't feel included or represented.