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Feminist Beyhive
Accompanying Janell Hobson's Currents essay, "Celebrity Feminism: More Than a Gateway"
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Politics of Visibility | Girls & Media | Commodification & Consumption | Beauty, the Body, & Sexuality | Teachable Signs Articles
Lemonade
Melissa Harris-Perry, “A Call and Response with Melissa Harris-Perry: The Pain and the Power of ‘Lemonade,’” Elle, April 25, 2016.
bell hooks, “Moving Beyond Pain: Bell Hooks Offers Her Thoughts on Beyoncé’s Visual Album Lemonade,” Bell Hooks Institute, May 9, 2016.
bell hooks, "Femme Feminista," Bell Hooks Institute, May 11, 2016.
Lori Adelman, “A Black Feminist Roundtable on bell hooks, Beyoncé, and ‘Moving beyond Pain,’” Feministing, May 2016.
Charles Pulliam-Moore, "In 6 Tweets, Janet Mock Takes Down a Controversial Critique of Beyonce's 'Lemonade,'" Fusion, May 10, 2016
This echoes dismissal of femmes as less serious, colluding w patriarchy, merely using our bodies rather than our brains to sell. Lets stop.
— Janet Mock (@janetmock) May 10, 2016
Phoebe Robinson and guest Janet Mock, "#3 Phoebe Robinson and Janet Mock Make Lemonade," Sooo Many White Guys, July 2016
Caitlin Gibson, “Beyoncé and ‘Lemonade’ Are Giving These Feminist Scholars so Much to Debate,” The Washington Post, May 11, 2016.
Jenn M. Jackson, "Who's Making the 'Lemonade'? On bell hooks' and Beyoncé's Feminisms," Black Youth Project, May 12, 2016.
Lasha, “bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What This Feminist Scholarly Critique Gets Wrong about ‘Lemonade’ and Liberation,” Salon, May 17, 2016.
Jamilah Lemieux, “bell hooks and the Sour ‘Lemonade' Review,” Ebony, May 11, 2016.
Sameer Rao, “Roundup: What You Need to Know About the Reaction to bell hooks’ Critique of ‘Lemonade,’” ColorLines, May 12, 2016.
Candice Benbow, “Lemonade Syllabus,” 2016.
Carrie Battan, “Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Is a Revelation of Spirit,” The New Yorker, April 24, 2016.
Kiana Fitzgerald, “Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Is Defiant In The Midst Of Upheaval,” NPR, April 25, 2016.
GirlTalkHQ, “How Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ Just Stepped Up The Visibility For Black Feminism & #BlackLivesMatter,” GirlTalkHQ, February 12, 2016.
Naila Keleta-Mae and Anupa Mistry, “Beyoncé Speaks Directly To The Black Mainstream With LEMONADE,” Fader, April 24, 2016.
Spencer Kornhaber, “Beyoncé’s Lemonade and the Sacredness of Sex,” The Atlantic, April 26, 2016.
Treva Lindsey, “Beyoncé’s Lemonade Isn’t Just About Cheating, It’s About Black Sisterhood,” Cosmopolitan, April 27, 2016.
Amanda Hess, “Warsan Shire, the Woman Who Gave Poetry to Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade,’” The New York Times, April 27, 2016.
Jamilah King, "Here's the Warsan Shire Poem That Caught Beyonce's Attention for 'Lemonade,'" Identities.Mic, April 25, 2016.
Academic Articles
Inna Arzumanova, “The Culture Industry and Beyoncé’s Proprietary Blackness,” Celebrity Studies, 2016.
Ellis Cashmore, “Buying Beyoncé,” Celebrity Studies, 2010.
Dayna Chatman, “Pregnancy, Then It’s ‘Back To Business’: Beyoncé, Black Femininity, and the Politics of a Post-Feminist Gender Regime,” Feminist Media Studies, 2015.
Aisha Durham, “‘Check On It’ Beyoncé, Southern Booty, and Black Femininities in Music Video,” Feminist Media Studies, 2012.
Nathalie Weidhase, “‘Beyoncé Feminism’ and the Contestation of the Black Feminist Body,” Celebrity Studies, 2015.
Beyoncé
Melissa Harris-Perry, "Beyoncé Drops Her 'Feminist Manifesto," Melissa Harris-Perry Show, 2013
Brittney Cooper, "5 Reasons I'm Here for Beyoncé the Feminist," Crunk Feminist Collective, December 13, 2013.
Brittney Cooper, “The Beyoncé Wars: Should She Get to Be a Feminist?” Salon, December 2013.
Kara Brown, “We Don’t Need to Defend Beyoncé’s Feminism Anymore Because We Have ‘Beyoncé,’” Noisey, December 17, 2013.
Mykki Kendall, "Beyoncé's New Album Should Silence Her Feminist Critics," The Guardian, December 13, 2013.
Mia McKenzie, "On Defending Beyoncé: Black Feminists, White Feminists, and the Line in the Sand," Black Girl Dangerous, December 16, 2013.
bell hooks, Marci Blackman, Shola Lynch, and Janet Mock, "Are You Still a Slave? Liberating the Black Female Body," Eugene Lang College, May 7, 2014
Brittney Cooper, “On Bell, Beyonce’, and Bullshit,” Crunk Feminist Collection, May 20, 2014.
Hillary Crosley Coker, “What Bell Hooks Really Means When She Calls Beyoncé a ‘Terrorist,’” Jezebel, May 9, 2014.
Jessica Bennett, “How to Reclaim the F-Word? Just Call Beyoncé,” Time, August 26, 2014.
Janet Mock, "My Feminist Awakening & the Influence of Beyoncé's Pop Culture Declaration," Janet Mock, September 3, 2014.
Kevin Allred, “Beyoncé 101: Why I Teach a University Course on the Superstar Singer,” The Washington Post, July 7, 2014.
Tshepo Mokoena, "Beyoncé's Drunk in Love: Should We Have a Problem With It?," The Guardian, January 28, 2014.
Ellie Slee, "Beyoncé Must Have Her Feminist Cake and Eat It Too," Huffington Post, January 28, 2014.
Beyonce Knowles-Carter, “Gender Equality Is a Myth!” The Shriver Report, January 12, 2014.
Janell Hobson, "Policing Feminism: Regulating the Bodies of Women of Color," Ms., June 10, 2013.
Janell Hobson, “Sexual Geopolitics of Popular Culture and Transnational Black Feminism,” The Feminist Wire, January 13, 2014.
Tamara Winfrey Harris, “All Hail the Queen? What Do Our Perceptions of Beyoncé’s Feminism Say About Us?” Bitch, May 20, 2013.
Jamilah Lemieux, “Black Feminism Goes Viral,” EBONY, March 3, 2014.
Chris Azzopardi, “Q&A: Annie Lennox On Her Legacy, Why Beyoncé Is ‘Feminist Lite,’” Pride Source, September 25, 2014.
Tracy Clark-Flory, “Feminists Can Twerk Too: What Annie Lennox Misunderstands about Beyoncé,” Salon, October 22, 2014.
Natalia Hadjigeorgiou, “Annie Lennox Calls Beyonce Feminist Lite and Why We Should All Support Each Other,” Bust, n.d.
Hadley Freeman, “Beyoncé: Being Photographed in Your Underwear Doesn’t Help Feminism,” The Guardian, January 15, 2013.
Maya Dusenberry and Sesali, “Feminism Is Totally Cool with Beyoncé Posing in Her Underwear,” Feministing, January 18, 2013.