Aisha Durham

Aisha Durham

Aisha Durham is a cultural studies scholar. Durham uses auto/ethnography, performance writing, and intersectional approaches honed in Black feminist cultural criticism to analyze representations of Black womanhood in hip hop media. Recent work on Black womanhood is featured in her new book, Home with Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture. This book extends earlier discussions about hip hop culture, media representations, and the body in her co-edited volumes, Home Girls Make Some!: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology and Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method & Policy. Durham’s cultural criticism has been featured in popular news media and sites, such as The New Yorker, Haaretz, Crunk Feminist Collective, NewBlackMan, and Ms. Magazine.

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Microeditorial: Harriet, Black Women Gather

Harriet is cinematic church. This weekend, Black women gathered in a Tampa theater reciting spirituals,…

Microeditorial: First Purge, A Movie and Country Divided

The First Purge is the Black Panther of Wu-Tang Clan land. In the Black-directed prequel,…

Microeditorial: Tending to Our Daughters’ Gardens by Toni Powell-Young and Aisha S. Durham

The language of sustainability is familiar to us even if the word feels foreign. Beneath…

Microeditorial: 5 Ways Chris Rock Mocked Black Women For The Amusement Of A White Audience

  1. He shamed Jada Pinkett Smith for her decision to boycott the Academy Awards. He…

Microeditorial: Creed

I never thought I’d be rooting for a Rocky film. The franchise recalled American exceptionalism,…