As hip hop created its reputation over the years, it was at first difficult to understand how something so blatantly misogynistic could benefit women in any type of way. However, what I appreciated about this section was it effectively breaking those stereotypes and addressing the fact that the stereotypical “white feminism” is not be the most inclusive practice of feminism (obviously). The reading, “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions” discusses how deeply invested hip-hop feminism is in intersectional approaches. You cannot discuss gender without considering how race and sexuality tie in together, they are too heavily intertwined. Hip-hop feminism lives on a multitude of contradictions, that does not mean that it is not feminist, though. While conversing about the chapter in GrafittiGrrlz, “Doing Feminist Community without “Feminist” Identity”, we asked what actually counts as feminism? And we decided that performing a feminist act does not always get called feminist or is done by a self-proclaimed feminist. White, heterocentric, western values get in the way of that. Oftentimes, women of color are hesitant to call themselves feminist due to its reputation of only pushing for a white women’s agenda. Due of this conflict of interest, we cannot always say that things that do not appear to be feminist are not. The only thing that matters is what someone does and how they do it, not what it is labelled as.